>> WITH THE ELECTIONS BEHIND US, PEOPLE ARE FEELING DIFFERENT LEVELS OF EXUBERANT ELATION OR ANXIETY.

AMERICANS ARE AWAKENING TO A CHANGED POLITICAL AND POLICY LANDSCAPE.

>> MY GOOD MAN!

I'VE JUST AWOKEN FROM A GREAT SLUMBER.

HAVE I MISSED THE ELECTION RESULTS?

>> YES, THE ELECTION WAS LAST WEEK.

>> AND THAT SILVER-TONGUED FIRE BREATHER, DID HE WIN?

>> DONALD TRUMP?

YEAH, HE WAS RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT.

>> TRUMP WHO?

I'M TALKING ABOUT WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN!

DID HE SUCCEED IN HIS CRUSADE AGAINST THE EASTERN MONIED INTERESTS?

>> WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN?

LIKE, CROSS OF GOLD GUY?

>> YES, THE ‘BOY ORATOR,' THE ‘GREAT COMMONER'!

WILL THE NATION HEED HIS CALLS FOR INCREASED SILVER COINAGE?

>> YA KNOW, HONESTLY ANYTHING SEEMS POSSIBLE RIGHT NOW.

I'M SORRY, HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN ASLEEP?

>> I DON'T KNOW.

I WAS ON THE WAY TO MY POLLING PLACE WHEN I RAN INTO A GROUP OF VOY AGEUERS AND DRANK FROM THEIR CAST OF SPIRITS AND I JUST WOKE UP NOW.

>> I'M GOING TO SAY, FOR 1900, THIS IS A BIT OF AN ODD OUTFIT.

>> THAT'S BECAUSE I WAS AT A COSTUME PARTY.

SEE, IT'S NOT A REAL BEARD.

TELL ME, HOW DID THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FROM MINNESOTA FARE?

>> YOU MEAN GOVERNOR WALZ?

>> NO!

DONNELLY!

MINNESOTA'S IGNATIUOUS DONNELLY, THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR THE POPULIST PARTY!

>> BOTH ALZ AND IGNACIOUS DONNELLY WERE DEFEATED.

>> SO YOU'RE SAYING MCKINLEY WON RE-ELECTION?

EVEN AFTER HE RAISED TARIFFS ON IMPORTS TO NEARLY 50%.

TIN PLATES BECAME UNAFFORDABLE FOR THE COMMON AMERICAN!

>> TARIFFS ARE STILL IN THE CONVERSATION.

JUST MORE FOCUS ON SEMICONDUCTORS AND IPHONES NOW THAN TIN PLATES.

>> THESE ARE STRANGE TIMES IN WHICH I HAVE AWOKEN.

I THOUGHT WE HIT OUR ODDEST AS A NATION WHEN WE RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT GROVER CLEVELAND TO A SECOND NONCONSECUTIVE TERM.

>> YOU KNOW, WE ACTUALLY JUST DID THAT, TOO.

BIGGEST POLITICAL COMEBACK IN HISTORY, EVEN BIGGER, AND I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M SAYING THIS, THAN GROVER CLEVELAND.

>> WELL, I HOPE THIS NEW PRESIDENT IS ABLE TO BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER.

THE NATION NEEDS IT.

IN ANY TIME PERIOD.

AND MAYBE I STILL HAVE SOMETHING FROM MY TIME TO TEACH YOU.

YOU KNOW, IT WAS AN AGE OF EXPERIMENTATION, OF FREEDOM, YES, OF SOME DECADENCE, BUT ALSO WHEN MEN LOVED ONE ANOTHER OPENLY AND WITH ABANDON.

WE CALLED IT THE GAY 90'S.

>> YOU KNOW, I ACTUALLY KNOW A BAR THAT YOU MIGHT LIKE.