If you spend time on Twitter (I won’t use its official name), you have probably encountered what my friend Magdi Jacobs calls “doomerism.” Generally speaking, that’s an attitude arising from the most extreme ends of the continuum, according to which nothing really matters in human society except the ability of one group to dominate another. It’s nihilism from the far right and the far left. Both enable tyrants like Donald Trump. I’ll talk more about doomerism another time. For now, I want to recognize my own recent reaction to it, which has been a generally positive attitude toward this year’s…