You probably won't see much of that header here in the coming weeks. Trump and his gang are passing into the category of "Things I don't like but I can't do anything about at the moment." Before last Tuesday, there was about a three-hundred-and-thirty-millionth of a percent chance that I could contribute, if not to a G.O.P. defeat then at least to the group dialogue on why there should be one. Now there's not even that in the near future and keeping up on politics at all means reading all sorts of articles that I don't want to read and don't think are helping.
One kind is the "Why Trump Won" pieces which are now crystal clear on all the reasons that were in place before Election Day but the person who wrote the article is just now noticing them. Too little, too late, I'm afraid. The other kind would be the "Here's the one reason" articles and while I'm not sure of much about this election, I'm pretty sure there are a lot of different reasons. It's like when they give out the Oscars and someone says, "Oh, they gave Best Actress to Meryl Streep because they all thought she got robbed when she didn't get it for that movie she made last year." The people voting did not vote in lockstep with the same one viewpoint.
One thing I'd like to think is that there won't really be a Mass Deportation. My guess is that there'll be an ongoing deportation not that much greater than what Obama and Biden oversaw, though Trump and his backers will be a lot louder and prouder of it and will make it seem like a Mass Deportation. I can't imagine Big Business in this country urging Trump to get rid of their lowest-paid, I'll-take-any-job-for-any-salary laborers. Trump doesn't think employers should even pay overtime to employees who work overtime.
This article by Kevin Drum is probably worth reading and saving. President Trump will doubtlessly brag that he solved the problem of Runaway Inflation but as Drum notes, that problem has already been solved. He'll say he solved the problems of Illegal Immigration and Economic Strength and Imports From China and Oil and Gas Production and the Murder Rate but all those are already trending in the right direction.
If you forced me to pick one reason why Trump won, I'd say it's because the Democrats failed to get the mass public to realize things were trending like that and the Republicans did a good job convincing that public that if they did hear such facts, they shouldn't believe them. You know…the same way even the Right Wing Press couldn't find even one Haitian in Springfield who actually ate a dog or cat but people inclined to vote for Donald thought, "That doesn't disprove what he said. We just know that kind of thing is going on somewhere or will."
But I also think they had a lot more than one reason. Democrats have until the mid-terms to figure out some of them and if they can't, maybe we need to find some new Democrats. Please don't write me about political stuff or any of this. I'm going to turn off that admittedly-small sector of my brain for a while and focus on matters that I understand a lot better and feel I can control a bit. Among other tasks, I have two books to finish. One is the one about Jack Kirby and the other is about someone else who was also really good at a drawing board. That much, I can handle.