I went to bed early, I couldn’t take the stress. I woke up at 4:30, and was flabbergasted to see that while it still looks like Joe Biden will win when the mail-in ballots are counted, Trumpism itself is alive and well — and my worse-case scenario (Mitch McConnell remains as majority leader) may came true — depending on ballot runoffs in Maine and Georgia!
The bad news is, a quarter of a million people dead from covid, and half of Americans wanted to reward Donald Trump with a second term. Even if Joe Biden wins, that’s what we’re dealing with.
However: Remember Election Night 2018? We were all in despair, and then as the numbers trickled in, it turned out to be a very sneaky wave — and a big victory for Democrats.
The reason Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin are still counting mail-in ballots is because the GOP-controlled state legislatures in all of those states blocked attempts to pass legislation that would allow processing ballots well before Election Day, as happens in other states.
That, and the Republican challengers who showed up at the counting sites and are challenging Every. Single. Ballot. Whee!
Don’t despair. The numbers will swing back and forth all week, all is not lost. It just won’t be pretty.
Trump will not “go quietly into that good night,” but go he will.
Trump didn’t build an impenetrable fence around the WH the other day for nothing.
He’s hunkered down for the coming storm.
Yep. It will be close, and contested to the end, but looks good for Biden. And there’s hope in Maine. Ranked choice voting gets my vote. No one I’d rather say, “bye,bye” to than Collins. Except McTurtle. But it looks like he will still rule the Senate, continuing Repub’s Trumpist scorched earth reign.
Over all very disappointing for us due, imho, to Dems failure to articulate a clear, left agenda. We’re better than the other guy is not an inspiring campaign slogan. Will they learn anything? Of course not. They’ll hold on to their sinecures, continue to laugh at dem socialism and progressive policies (a la Kameleon), and promote “moderation and bipartisanship” in the face of take no prisoners. Republican takeover of the federal bench at every level will continue.
Biden campaign has already indicated they will not “rebalance” SCOTUS, nor will they end the filibuster. Which is the same as saying, “NOTHING (fundamental) WILL CHANGE.”
Bernie and Liz will be ignored in favor of a Wall Street/neolib cabinet. No Medicare for all. More military spending, American Exceptionalism, delusional neocon foreign policy. No college debt cancel. No pivot to union rights. Look for some impressive window dressing.
Progressives and outright Dem Socialists who believe that they can push the Biden agenda to the left are delusional. The only hope is AOC and allies. And she’s thinking she might just go back to teaching. Or bartending. Wise choice.