America's 5 stages of Trump grief, as told by 23 headlines

America has moved from denial to acceptance. It hasn't been easy.

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It's been an emotional election.
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After Donald Trump's Tuesday sweep through Florida, Illinois, and North Carolina, it seems clear: Barring some unprecedented intervention from the RNC, Donald Trump is very likely going to be the Republican Party's nominee for president of the United States.

This hasn't been easy for many Americans to accept. Indeed, as Trump surged, much of the nation went through the five stages of grief: first, laughing off Trump's candidacy as a joke, then getting really mad about the joke going on too long, then attempting to talk ourselves into thinking maybe Trump wouldn't actually be that bad, then just being really darn depressed about the whole thing. Only now does America seems to realize just how real the Trump phenomenon is.

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