My thoughts on what just happened:

“I believed Americans would reject that reality at the ballot yesterday. The smartest analysts I know thought the same, that the polls showing a tight race were wrong, and that Harris and American women would prevail. I believed Americans wanted to turn the chapter on Trumpism and elect someone who was competent, smart, and actually cared about their wellbeing. I was wrong.

Enough Americans have been taken in by this extraordinary cult of personality and have voted in a madman to be their president. The mainstream press failed spectacularly, again, to focus on the danger Trump posed to America. They turned the presidential contest it into yet another horse race where the reds were fighting the blues in battle to the finish. Trump was sanitized, repackaged, and finally thrust back into the White House with barely a scratch on him.”