Weird Won. What now?

Weird won. So, get over it. When Tim Walz called Trump and Vance “weird” we laughed as it keyed into something that we already thought. These weird creepy men with no respect for women, one of whom is convicted  of sexual assault, who would vote for them? Fascists? Sexists? Racists?

 I mean why would you when the alternative was a woman, always laughing in a smart trouser suit, a woman who talked about joy but little about policy.

Obviously, I wanted Harris to win and even had money on it but as sick as I feel today, it is no mystery to me why she lost. She was part of the cover up of Biden’s clear cognitive decline. She surrounded herself with exactly the kind of celebrities we all expected from Beyonce to Oprah. There was an assumption that a woman of colour could somehow haul in “the black vote”, “the ‘Hispanic vote’ and ‘the young’ .

If anything, this election shows us we have got to stop thinking about swathes of people in this stupid, reductionist way. Identity politics is not electoral politics. Trump garnered votes from all the groups that were assumed by the Democrats to have a natural aversion to hm .Well, they didn’t.