My sadness is for the damage this moron has brought to our nation.
“...could not dispel the feeling of a New Orleans funeral...”
Obviously the NYT reporter has never been to a New Orleans funeral-—a foot-stompin’ booty-shakin’ raucous, put the corpse in the hole and let’s party, y’all, cuz he be daid but we ain’t, joyous hallelujah sendoff.