He got mad at me last year, made a public show of leaving, came back a few months later. I'd have to go dig for it, but while he has used dramatic language before, he did say a couple things recently, after returning, that sounded grim, or at least fatalistic, but nobody seemed to pick up on it, or make any big deal out of it, so I don't know.
4 years of hard right wing American political control smashed the shit out of a lot of peoples faith in humanity empathy became the enemy
