The Center Won't Hold

It's too early for postmortems as this thing could still go even further south, but I do have some emotions. Trump has turned out to be 100 times worse than even pessimists thought he'd be four years ago, but he is exactly as popular as he was back then, if not a little more-so. That's just a fact.

I wish I could go on to say that we as a nation just have to make our peace with that and accept our differences, but when your differences go to the heart of your values, you can't paper them over. His side hates my side; they want to destroy my way of life. I can't shrug that off, anymore than they can shrug off the threat they believe I pose to them.

So, the center won't hold, even if Biden gets to run a divided government. I think the next four years may be even worse than the last four years, because we at least cherished the hope of repudiating him.

The center isn't going to hold.