Anyone who thinks the Republicans just won the election and the Democrats didn’t lose hasn’t been paying attention.
Forget about 270. Today, the number that matters most is 92—former and future President Donald J. Trump will now be presidents 45+47.
But anyone who thinks the Republicans just won the election and the Democrats didn’t lose hasn’t been paying attention.
The Democrats outworked nobody in this election. All they did was outspend and out-fundraise by a truly massive margin. But the seemingly complete absence of strategy—beginning with the candidate they chose, the timing around her selection, and the complete absence of any selection process itself—is how we got to where we are today.
Some will opine that Trump’s win is the Bat-Signal for fascists around the world to come out and play; that today marks the end of American Democracy. Factor into it that the Democrats have lost the Senate and will surely lose the House of Representatives, and then layer on top of that the sketchiest Supreme Court in the history of American Supreme Courts, and it’s understandable why people think this is a disaster stew.
I lived through this a few years ago as a Jew in Berlin when the formerly right-wing fringe party Alternative for Deutschland won the state elections.
