Getting Over It

 The election season is almost over.  Two more runoffs for the United States Senate to be held in Georgia on January 5, 2021 will decide who the Senate Majority Leader will be.  Both republicans did better than the democrats in the Senate races and the presidential race had Biden leading Trump by about 14,000 votes.  None of the candidates for the United States Senate received 50% of the vote triggering the runoff election.

The race for the President was called for Biden.  It will be difficult for President Trump to overcome a 14,000 vote deficit but it should be noted that neither presidential candidate received 50% of the vote in Georgia which will require a recount.

Even though President Elect Biden has almost certainly won 306 Electoral Votes nation wide and commentators will crow about the number of folks that voted for President Biden, he has only the smallest mandate, that being "try not to suck" at being President like Trump does now and has the last four years.

President Trump failed at being president and almost 79,000,000 voted for someone other than him as incumbent.  He was however a driving force for the record turnout.

Had he tweeted less, followed the advice of his advisors related to the pandemic, tried to be less racist, followed up on promises to improve health care in this country, been less sexist, and toned down talk about the wall and being against everything "Obama", he might have even been a popular president who would have survived his anti-democratic tendencies.

I can imagine him still being President in spite of all his other shortcomings as a leader.  More money for the rich, jobs for everyone, guns for all, a politically sympathetic Supreme Court and a second term.  

It wasn't a soft landing and the scorched earth policies he followed for the last four years will leave a legacy that will make every other one term president in this country's history look better better in a walk over when compared to the fiasco that has been this last four years.

The rest of the world seems to understand American democracy better than Donald Trump.  

It's over, so very over and DJT you need to move on.

 

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  1. John AsgeirsonNovember 15, 2020 at 9:31 AM

    In 2020, Biden won 477 counties that account for 70 percent of the U.S. economy, while Trump won 2,497 counties amounting to just shy of 30 percent of the economy, according to an analysis by Mark Muro, senior fellow at the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, and his team. (A handful of counties are still awaiting final election results.) For Democrats, it was a notable increase from 2016, when Hillary Clinton won counties amounting to 64 percent of the U.S. economy.

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