America chooses fascism
By Let’s be frank: while the election was a coin flip there it was nonetheless a very real likelihood that one candidate would sweep the battlegrounds, and it is very likely that this is what will have happened (although Harris has an outside chance of winning Arizona, Michigan and Nevada):
It seems very likely that Trump will win the popular vote too.
It’s ugly. Trump got away with 1/6; he got away with Dobbs. Unlike 2016, I don’t think there’s any serious argument that a different candidate or a better campaign could have won, and there was no major outside force like James Comey. These are demographic shifts that are not about any particular candidate or campaign, combined with anti-incumbent sentiments that have caused incumbent parties in major democracies since COVID to suffer even worse defeats.
Misplaced nostalgia and anti-immigration sentiment worked — they got an decrepit and open fascist elected. The American people have got what they wanted, and they’re going to get it good and hard. The only silver lining is that Dems are a slight favorite to hold the House, which would actually be a pretty big deal.