The glimmer of hope is that I'm actually being surprised (in a mourningful good way) by the way the people of our nation are coming together and crossing party lines to be against Trump. I live in a very red part of California, and I've been really surprised constantly everywhere I go overhearing local upper middle class/rich white republicans being upset & depressed Trump won. The slightly lower overall republican turn out in the election which was already boosted by a lot of new gains, means a good chunk of republicans did not vote for him because they're decent people and didn't want to vote for what he stood for. Yeah, there are plenty of horrible people out there, many who are going to be empowered by this, but just like in high school where there were always douchebag shitheads being loud, they weren't the majority and they're not the majority of americans. Most americans from what I'm seeing reject Trump and his ideals, regardless of party lines. There's decent good working people everywhere which is nice to still be reminded of. Fwiw, I've never seen republicans as united with democrats as yesterday and today on a local anecdotal basis. Decent people do not want what Trump represents.
Also everyone both democrats/independants/some republicans, young, old, male, female, white, minority are all REALLY energized right now and working together and what they can do now, for the next for years, and for 2020. A big issue with democratic candidates is always the apathetic /shrug not worth voting turnout problem when things get complacent. For all the flaws and blame, at the end of the day when democrats can get people to give a shit and come out and vote, they win. From what I'm seeing, this election just lit a fire under everyone's ass and the turnout in 2020 could be huge if they can maintain the energy (which unfortunately may be maintained by lots of horrible shit happening on a regular basis).
Now obviously these are all just small positives in an overall very bad situation that is going to hurt, kill and destroy lots of people over the next 4 years and fuck up a ton of stuff which is beyond horrible. But at least there's some hope still, which is better than an abyss of nothing but death and destruction.