Source: In These Times
by Hamilton Nolan
“To wake up the morning after Election Day was to understand the appeal of oblivion. Regaining consciousness meant assuming the crushing weight of the darkest knowledge. The Motherfucker is back. ‘Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard,’ wrote American journalist H.L. Mencken in 1916. Now, everyone will unleash their theories. Salvaging comfort in a situation like this means smoothing down the events so that they conform to our own world view. So people will say: Kamala Harris lost because she did not embrace the policy views that I do. Or: Kamala Harris lost because the ignoble rats on the [left/ right/ middle] did not work hard enough for her.” (11/06/24)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/trump-victory-election-2024