Among the outrages to decency that this election represents is the fact that it happened in the middle of a pandemic which half the electorate was willing to accept as the natural order of things. Of course a once every four years choice between two personalities provides far too little information about what complicated sets of concerns animate even the most single-minded voters, and presidential tallies somehow remain uncannily close to 50-50 cycle after cycle. Still. How could it not matter? Covid marked the election with 100,000 new infections !
