The reactions of the reactive remind me a bit of those saying both before and after the election that Trump would be the end of democracy, and I would respond with this from a 1954 interview of Robert Frost (elipses in original).

“'In all your years and all your travels,' the interviewer asked, 'what do you think is the most important thing you’ve learned about life?'

He paused a moment, then with the twinkle sparkling under those brambly eyebrows he replied: 'In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on. In all the confusions of today, with all our troubles . . . with politicians and people slinging the word fear around, all of us become discouraged . . . tempted to say this is the end, the finish. But life — it goes on. It always has. It always will. Don’t forget that.'"