I've been exasperated by the way presidential election results, focused on the Electoral College, are shown for a long time. We're a purple country and have been as long as I can remember - and teetering along the fifty-fifty line for a long time too. Folks need to see this map! (And more detailed ones, when they come in, showing county-level results and, crucially, population rather than geography.) On this website you can compare the flushes of slightly redder or bluer purple across the last dozen presidential elections. We've been bluer, and redder (though my friend M points out that the red wasn't as red in tooth in claw before.) We're like someone who shifts their weight from one leg to the other.
What's the point of mentioning this? Another razor-thin election! There is nothing like a mandate for the hostile takeover of the levers of government the victors are planning - not that that will stop them (alas!). And no, he doesn't "get" us. We're a sick puppy of a nation, barely living in the same reality, but we don't "deserve" to be got, especially as the we who will suffer most aren't the ones who voted for him. Saying so invites the demon into your heart.
