Don’t Worry About Anything

I think one reason that the networks finally felt comfortable calling this is Rupert Murdoch giving Trump another kick in the ass through the door:

If Mr. Biden has 270 Electoral College votes at the end of the counting and litigation, President Trump will have a decision to make. We hope in that event he would concede gracefully. He has accomplished a great deal since descending on that Trump Tower escalator in 2015, including his historic first victory and a strong re-election performance when he was supposed to lose in a rout. We’d hate to see that legacy ruined by a refusal to accept the normal transfer of power.

Murdoch personally telling Trump he wasn’t retracting Fox’s AZ call is one of the most important events of this cycle, making a relatively peaceful transition of power much more likely. It’s frightening for one man to have all that power, but better this than the alternative.