Madness, memes, and media malfeasance (must be Tuesday). It’s embarrassing to admit, but just a little earlier this year I thought the election would be boring. Sure, the Democrats were calling Donald Trump a fascist, but they do that every four years, with every Republican, and the cartoonish slander wasn’t hitting like it used to. This was probably because Trump had already been president. Joe Biden was currently president. We knew these men. There was no scary unknown in the race, no matter how badly pundits on both sides wanted to work with that primal storytelling material, and the threat of a scary unknown is what I always assumed drove people insane inside of an election. It was late June, and I was feeling… fine? For Americans, the question was simple: are you better off now than you were four years ago? People would answer differently, but they would answer soberly, and come November we’d all move on.

Long story short, no — and also lol. Lmao, even. That is not what happened.

Today, on the other side of an historic, decisive victory for President Trump, with the Senate under Republican control, and the House teetering on the brink, Democrats are facing a political paradigm shift. And for good reason. The depraved gutter lows of the election, dotted with moments of true horror and psychopathy, followed four years of what came very close to total dissolution of the social contract. But now, as we learn about the world from our rapidly-maturing alternative media landscape, Americans are capable of discussing such things free of traditional media gatekeeping. That freedom has made the power class anxious, and in this anxiety they’ve grown more authoritarian than ever.

For insight into the broader shape of things, the arc of this election is an important place to start. Let’s just briefly recap...

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