Maybe we at The Post were lucky that the election fell on a week that there was a federal holiday on a Friday and the post offices which deliver our paper were all closed. It seems like the whole country needed more time to wrap their heads around what actually happened anyway.

Before we get to that I want to mention a word about the special digital-only edition we put out for the election results last Wednesday. By necessity of deadlines, it marked the first time that we began sending breaking news by emailing our readers directly. A giant spike of digital readership happened as you can imagine.

While we at The Post are very happy that our new digital product is working as planned, I want to reassure some of our readers who sent me notes that they are worried that we are abandoning our print edition. Although that is in the plans of many daily newspapers across the nation, that has never been our direction.

Having the ability to not be limited to the confines of our weekly print and mail format is exciting and more of that is definitely is in our plans, but only in combination with our weekly print — not instead of. No worries.

But back to my favorite subject ... politics! What a fitting crazy ending to a crazy election season!

Personally, I agonized all year on how to vote, but like many Americans the one option I was not considering was voting for Hillary Clinton. In the end, people like me are what helped Donald Trump to pull off the giant upset. It turns out that just about all of the undecideds did exactly the same and that is why Donald Trump is the next President of the United states.

Yes, I voted for Trump.

The fact that so many people in the end made that same decision is what the Democratic party should get their heads around. Yes, Hillary Clinton was a flawed candidate, but so was Trump! In the end people like myself voted for a change in policy, a change in direction, despite having reservations about the messenger.

If Clinton had won as expected, Republicans would have had a lot easier time accepting it. They had spent the last year expecting to lose as their party was breaking apart and changing shape. It seemed that the Dems were holding the vestiges of their old structure together long enough to gain the victory. When it didn’t, their entire party is now facing a complete reshuffling just like the Republicans had already been going through.

My guess is that both parties will never be the same. Furthermore, I think that is a good thing.

As I wrote last week, my biggest hope is to see a more united America. Oh sure, there will always be a lot of different opinions on policies, as there should be. But this dividing us all up against each other has got to stop.

In an ironic way, I think this election will end up making us more unified in the end, not less. The new president should be a unifier, not a divider. Our health care system is broken. Our budget is broken. Our working class is broken. Families are broken. Our country faces many grave threats. There is plenty that we can all agree on, that we can all work together on for the common good.

I am a conservative but I have many liberal friends and many liberal family members. I feel sorry for them to have to go through this emotional trauma. It always hurts when a Band-aid is ripped off but then the air gets in and the wound heals.

So far I am encouraged by how both Donald Trump and President Obama have handled the transition optics. And I thought that Hillary Clinton’s concession speech was one of her finest moments. Hopefully it’s a sign that they all realize how badly both sides have been dividing up America and it is time for that to stop.

Actually I have a suspicion that in the end the old guard Republicans may be more upset with soon-to-be President Trump than the Democrats who currently see him as the devil.

I think Trump will increase spending more than Hillary would have. Trump will try to grow America out of its problems, the same way he has always run his real estate business. Interest rates will go up but so will savings rates. The dollar will fall, but that will stimulate exports and job growth. Lower taxes will do the same.

The beneficiaries of these policies may actually turn out to be the working class voters that used to be the base of the Democratic party. Despite all the brainwashing and propaganda that has been going on out there on both sides, that will be the big story. That is what Trump cares about, not social issues like gay marriage.

Will it work? Who knows? What I do know is that the American people just voted for change. Let’s hope it works. And let’s all withhold judgment because the issues we are all obsessing about right now will very likely all look differently in a few years.

Relax kids. The sun will come out tomorrow.