Though in November I'm sure they were telling us how good he would be on the economic front.

So the top 1% will benefit economically from the right being in power, but the rest will spend the rest of their lives mad about whatever the current social change is, regardless of who's in power.

This is remarkably naive. I wish you were right, but this sentiment isn't optimism; it's complacency.

This is 100% false and naive. History is profoundly reversible. There is no such thing as guaranteed progress.

So-called "acceptance" of homosexuality is a very recent phenomenon but in no way mainstream. Even in the liberal progressive Bay Area you can get gay bashed quite easily (including in the Castro!).

Voting rights for women? Basically just turned 100 years old in the United States and already in the process of getting rolled back via the SAVE act.

Don't assume that any of the liberal trends we've seen in the last 150 years are here to stay. America is an interesting historical exception and anomaly -- by no means how humanity has done business for the majority of its existence.