Now that Trump has won, how to talk to your liberal friends

Many of your liberal friends are either in a state of deep depression, even deeper denial or worse.

Many will trade it in for a place on the picket line and barricades to stop Trump and his loyalists from changing their America into a carbon copy of their grandparents' America .

The next four years will see an even greater more substantial movement to their respective corners.

Stephen Helgesen is a retired career U.S. diplomat who lived and worked in 30 countries for 25 years during the Reagan , G.W. Bush , Clinton , and Bush Administrations .

He says the advice is a good starting point for a discussion with liberal friends.