Some more convention-inspired thoughts

If Trump is reelected, I don’t think the country will hold together for a minute; there will be general strikes and riots and it will look like Syria. If Biden is elected, the stock market bubble will burst as people realize that the bottom has genuinely and truly fallen out of the economy. The pandemic will eventually recede and the economy resurge, but not on anybody’s schedule. The challenges that we have to overcome--economic inequality, race, environmental degradation, climate change--won't change, but the national context in which they are either addressed or exacerbated is completely up in the air.Whether it’s Biden or Trump, in a few years American Exceptionalism will sound like as crazy a creed as QAnon.