Of all people, Glenn Beck said something yesterday that was amazingly insightful. To paraphrase: “Trump’s supporters took him seriously but not literally. I took him literally but not seriously. And now he’s our president.”

Yeah - hoping for something like 2006.

I have so many thoughts, too many to be coherent.

I read an article a few years ago, and unfortunately I don’t remember enough of the key words to find in the deluge of current election coverage, about voting in Switzerland (or Sweden?). They had insanely high turnouts, like over 80% would vote. In order to enable more people to vote, they did mail in ballots. Well…

Wisconsin has switched from being a blue state to a red state and the voters there are in for a big surprise. They deserve it to.

The bizarre thing I’ve encountered here in Seattle is black people happy that “now that we got a real leader in, the Mexicans are gone at I can get a job”.

It’s going to get a lot worse for the working class and anyone lower. Those rural and working class whites are going to get absolutely screwed. And fuck them, they deserve all of it.

The GOP complained about Obama being a tyrant the last 8 years.

This is what gets me. Obama was a tyrant, apparently, and they hated that, so they elected a real tyrant, abuser of powers, with NO political experience and documented history of corruption.

I still can’t fucking believe that about half of the registered voters in America just... stayed home.

Trump won with fewer votes than Romney and McCain lost with. Trump didn’t do anything special, he didn’t bring out more people than usual, he didn’t ignite some widespread political fire that burned gloriously into the night as the country watched in astonishment. He performed like any other Republican in recent times…

My only hope is that this horrific episode leads to the massive thinning of the pundit class herd.

Agreed. The easy shorthand for that principle is “Kansas.”

The duped racists elected a Fascist.

A few of my Trump voting coworkers are already backing off on the rhetoric they were spewing as early as Monday. “No matter who won, we were screwed anyway so I chose the one who cares about American jobs” bs. I think deep down in their heart they thought he would lose but just couldn’t bring themselves to vote for…

This is good analysis, Tom, and turns the focus to where it should be— identifying where the votes that mattered came from and how they got took.

But, in reading and listening to all the armchair QB’ing taking place the past 24 hours or so— including this site’s own Blame Xxxx series— I’m struck by one or more…

I will repeat again from the plot of one of the episodes of “The Heart, She Holler”: “The history of America is a narrative concerning the triumph of white supremacy.” This is what happens when we don’t pay attention. Everybody gets demoralized, and everybody eventually rises to fight again, but everybody also gets…

“Govern badly and then convince the people government doesn’t work” - holy shit, this might be the best distillation of the Republican strategy I’ve read. Along those lines, I’ve said for years the greatest thing R’s have pulled off is getting large amounts of people to vote against their self-interest. I guess that’s…

Don’t forget:

The Republican machine couldn’t control him in the primaries. Good luck when he’s the most powerful man on earth - whatever’s left of it anyway.