text: I will never recover from the deep sense of shame that washes over me every time I confront anew the fact that the buffoon Trump represents my country.
  
   I’ll always feel it, even if President Gillibrand is followed by Presidents Kamala Harris, Ted Lieu, Joaquin Castro, et al, and the Republican Party atrophies like a vestigial tail, drops off and is forgotten by history. 
  
  This shame is eternal.