BTRTN: The Would-Be King is Gone, Long Live the Constitution. Now, How Do We Repair the Damage?
Born To Run The Numbers celebrates Biden's win -- briefly -- and then looks closely at an election that carries ominous warnings and demands serious action to preserve our democracy going forward:
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2020/11/btrtn-would-be-king-is-gone-long-live.html
Excerpts: "...Biden won, but we were also drenched by a sobering bucket of ice water: our nation refused to unequivocally repudiate the presidency of a racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, lazy, ignorant, and profoundly divisive criminal. Indeed, this country came close to re-electing him. Flip just a microscopic one-tenth of one percent of 145,000,000 votes cast nationally in three states, and Donald Trump would have been re-elected for a second term...Make no mistake: Donald Trump’s administration has increasingly hewed to the trajectory of the worst authoritarian regimes...In a second, utterly unchecked term, who knows how far down this path Donald Trump would have taken this country?
"Trump had failed to deliver on the only question an incumbent must address... are you better off now than you were four years ago? Somehow we could maybe understand that Trump supporters don’t care about the lying,the misogyny, racism, and xenophobia because Trump came through for them on the pocketbook issues. But he did not, but Trump supporters still did not seem to care...
"On Tuesday we found out that 2016 was in large measure replayed in 2020, and that means that in four years, we are going to go through this insanity all over again...If we learn nothing else from the trauma of the last four years, exponentially magnified in the last four days, it is that the role of leading our government may rest in the hands of elected officials, but the hard work of exercising control over that leadership must truly be our own. If it is to be a government of, for, and by the people, the people must behave like owners, not subjects..."
