Maureen Dowd's long interview with technology investor and Trump supporter Peter Thiel may or may not be worth your time, but I did find one thought in it from Mr. Thiel that I thought was wise: "I always have very low expectations, so I'm rarely disappointed."
The way I have formulated it in conversations with friends about the presidential transition is that President Obama came in and everyone thought he was the messiah, so disappointment was inevitable. With Trump, everyone thinks he's the devil, so at least there's a potential for a surprise on the positive side.
By "everyone," in the preceding paragraph, I mean the coastal academic and media urban elites, which I do realize (even more acutely than I did before the election) is not actually everyone.
Mr. Thiel's idea is an interesting twist on George W. Bush's campaign, in education, against "the soft bigotry of low expectations." Leave it to the contrarian Mr. Thiel to remind us that even low expectations can have their advantages.