Notwithstanding the vagaries of the Electoral College, a majority of Americans never bought into Donald Trump, as evidenced by consistent polling over the years and Clinton’s margin of 3 million in the overall popular vote in 2016. Biden is going to win the popular vote by over 4 million this time around. The additional million votes in the margin is undoubtedly attributable to disgust with Trump’s performance in office, including, but not limited to, his failures with the pandemic.
Given his awful record, why isn’t the margin greater? Why didn’t we have a blue tsunami? Why is Mitch McConnell going to be a sort of co-president for the next two years? The answer can be found in the GOP commercials, virtually all of which attacked looters, rioters, and political correctness, not Joe Biden. America may be tired of Trump, but it isn’t ready to embrace wokeness yet. That will only come after tens of millions of Americans of my age or greater have left the scene.
So what will the woke do in the meantime? Probably tell us that the election proves that they were right–America was always an evil, racist empire, and it still is.