Latest 2024 election results: Donald Trump has defeated Kamala Harris to win a second presidential term, NBC News projects. Now what? We already know.
This is not the column I wanted to write, and it is certainly not the one you wanted to read today. Our long national nightmare is far from over, but NBC News projects that Donald Trump has beaten Kamala Harris.
I’ll leave it to others to engage in the post-mortem finger-pointing and second-guessing; and I won’t try to sugarcoat the outcome or what it means.
But I would suggest taking a very deep breath. And another one. Because the fights ahead will be even tougher and more dangerous than the ones we’ve been through.I’ll leave it to others to engage in the post-mortem finger-pointing and second-guessing; and I won’t try to sugarcoat the outcome or what it means.
There will be the inevitable and immediate attempts to downplay the well-established threat of a second Donald Trump presidency. But this time we need to take Trump both seriously and literally. This includes preparing for the possibility of him initiating a massive purge of the federal workforce and the process of mass deportations. Stephen Miller, Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
