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Imagine If Republicans Had a Better Hand…
Let’s start with the obvious.
In the twenty days since the presidential election, Donald Trump has engaged in a campaign unprecedented in American history to try to nullify the results of the vote, discard the will of the people, and cling to power in a banana republic-style self-coup. In the process, he is doing horrific and perhaps irreparable damage to one of the most fundamental tenets of our representative democracy, the peaceful transition of power.
in a reign rife with strong contenders, history may well remember this as the worst of Trump’s many many sins. (Close seconds and dishonorable mention: playing violin while a quarter of a million Americans died, kidnapping and caging innocent children, and destroying the whole concept of Truth.)
Living through this latest and (we hope) final episode has been headspinning, and a bit like the Red Mirage/Blue Shift on Election Night. We all knew it was coming, it had been written about ad nauseam in advance…..and yet when it really happened, it was still shocking and terrifying, as if it took us completely by surprise. I myself made a cottage industry of predicting this precise chain of events for two and a half years, and I’m far from alone. Yet it’s still astonishing to be in the midst of it. (And we’re not out of the woods yet.)
