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"Trump has liberated a lot of people from the last vestiges of the Sermon on the Mount. A lot of people turn out to have been sick and tired of pretending to be good." (worth reading) https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/10/27/election-developments-since-my-birth/
(This one too.) "Winning in this state becomes a chimera. Whoever takes the presidency, all Americans will remain the losers." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/theres-no-escaping-who-we-have-become/616992/?fbclid=IwAR03xerqT_E-vjQJdpNhC0QfuqqPi5MWaFhI2BEsCBD-gUnmcZX0Px4ydyE
HMU with more of your *bleak* takes. I need some more of this darkness. Not gonna couch any political optimism in 2020.
Oh yeah, that's the good stuff. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/11/2020-election-results-biden-won-democrats-senate-loss.html
An excellent bleak look here: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/11/bidens-lame-duck-presidency.html
One more for ya from ol' reliable: "I have been narrating our country’s toboggan ride to hell for much of my adult life, and I can attest that Biden’s triumph by itself is not enough to bring it to a stop." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/07/trump-defeat-election
"At root, Trump revealed how very hollow we are willing to let things get. Over the past 5 years, Americans were exposed to few political conversations of honesty or intellectual heft — & 10 of millions of us were relatively unbothered by that." https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-trump-changed-america/
"We all have a role to play in persuading this administration to have more courage, go farther, live up to its promises, all the while being louder than the corporations and conservatives who want the opposite." (Rebecca Solnit weighs in) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2020/nov/09/victory-is-only-the-prelude-what-happens-now-is-up-to-us
