Sure I am thrilled Biden won, but I get depressed when I realize Trump got 74 million votes

[BigBearJohn]

What a STAGGERING, earth-shattering thought that is. It is such an emotional letdown to realize that so many Americans really are that ignorant and/or evil. Truth DOES hurt sometimes. DEEEEP SIGH.... We just crossed over into… the Twilight Zone

[BigBearJohn]

1. However -- the glass is still half-full /nt

[MoonRiver]

12. Actually more than half according to the EC and PV numbers.

[Cary]

2. Not as earth shattering fir me, in 2016

Some alleged liberals mouthed "conservative" lies and smears about Hillary Clinton to the point where I had to downgrade my assessment of us generally. That broke my heart.

[LuvNewcastle]

3. Play the hand you're dealt.

Don't worry about the cards you could have had.

[arlyellowdog]

4. I know Trump voters

I’m pissed at them, but they are the same people who don’t want to help others that have always been here. More turned out because they felt Joe Biden might actually try to level the playing field and they don’t want competition. They know Trump is an idiot and government is ineffective and gridlock, but that is exactly what they want. Biden has to demonstrate that good government benefits them (clean energy jobs, etc).

[FM123]

5. Yep.

Not just the Twilight Zone, we crossed into episodes "It's a Good Life" and "He's Alive".

[mtnsnake]

6. Yeah, but compare that to how depressed you'd be feeling if Trump won

Just the fact alone that Biden beat him is enough to make me realize how fortunate we are, at least for the time being.

Plus, I still have doubts that Trump really got 74 million votes. Even if he did get that number of votes, at least it wasn't enough to overcome the record number of votes that Joe got.

[BigBearJohn]

8. That's why I said the glass is still half-full

[beachbumbob]

7. fear works and why GOP wins elections.

no simple solution either

[JI7]

9. People shouldn''t be shocked by it. It's disgusting but too many people want to avoid what many in

this country are about. Instead we continue to get people that want to treat them like victims .

[NCDem47]

10. Take a page from the Republican playbook...

Consider it a win and move on. Republicans are quite good at this in my opinion. Even if they win by one vote, they move forward with sickening confidence. With Biden's win, I trust the DNC or smart Democrats somewhere are doing a postmortem of the 2020 election to avoid repeats of areas where we fell short.

[secondwind]

11. I'm thinking that a good amount of that number is related

to Putin meddling. Trump didn’t win because Russian meddling was not sufficient.

Americans from all corners of the country had decided that they had had enough of Trump. Republicans, Democrats, Independents, new voters, etc.