The champagne is back in the basement. I will need the hard stuff over the next 4 years. I could not have been more wrong. Hard to believe the most racist candidate since George Wallace got a huge majority of Latino men, and a healthy chunk of black men. The Bro strategy worked. He won males 18-29 bt 11 points compared to Biden winning the group by 15. He muddied the water enough on abortion that it was a less potent issue than expected. Sisterhood did not prevail. Whatever his flaws as a candidate, this time he had a professional team that hit issues that worked. The anti-trans ads were shamefully potent.
Collective amnesia will take a while to explain. People rate the chaotic Trump presidency at 48, and the successful Biden term at 41.
In retrospect Kamala needed to distance herself from Biden, a touchy task. I still wonder why they never ran ads that Trump was held liable by a jury for sexual assault. The appeal to suburban women failed. Trump got marginally more Democratic voters than Kamala's share of Republicans. She only won independents by 5%. But maybe nothing mattered because American is unwilling to elect a Black woman.
If there are midterms, perhaps we can extract our revenge after people are reminded of how Trump governs.
For now I will be watching a lot of football.
