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Election 2024: Continuing the awkward analysis of what went wrong. (1)
Two voices come to the fore since the early morning hours of November 6 when it was apparent that Trump and the Republican Party had effectively captured the majority of voters and hence power to govern America for the next — presumably — four years. This assumes that there is a recognizable national election in two years — 2026 to be precise.
The first voice is that the loss for America is that a majority of voters chose the course of autocracy for the next four years by returning to office a thief, felon, miscreant, twice impeached former President who would sooner jail his detractors than reach consensus with the other half of Americans represented by elected officials who challenge his programs about what’s best for America.
Oh, I almost forgot.
He doesn’t like the Constitution.
Nothing new here. The second voice, however, resonates with the historical moment America finds itself in — a President in name only representing an oligarchic assembly of wealthy billionaires who would like to erase the lines between private accumulation of resources and the public distribution thereof for the betterment of the country.
Expand this a bit — just how ‘historic’ was this election, really.
