Well, folks, it’s over. And, given the situation, it couldn’t have come out better for us NeverTrump conservatives. God has been w-a-a-y more gracious to us than we deserved. (But ain’t that always so?)
Here’s what I thought the choice was:
Trump wins again with a minority of the popular vote and a squeaker in the Electoral College. The country goes up in flames—literally and metaphorically,
or
The Blue Tsunami washes over the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives, making it almost impossible for Biden to resist the push to move toward the progressive left.
Of course I went with option #2, but don’t think that I wasn’t pretty leery about how things would go. One of the very, very few NeverTrumpers who said he’d love to see Trump out but the GOP to keep the Senate was David French. And even he said that he knew it was a total pipe dream.
Well, he was wrong. Or, rather, he was right.
Now I’m not at all pleased that the loathsome Lindsey Graham is keeping his seat. And I was so looking forward to the spectacle of Mitch McConnell’s being the Senate Minority Leader.
But we’ll take it.
Biden will have to work with Republicans to get anything at all done. I think MM and he are going to make some deals. They’re longtime friends, actually. So we won’t have Elizabeth Warren as Secretary of the Treasury or some other left-wing nuttery Cabinet picks.
Stephen Breyer will retire, and Merrick Garland will take his seat, thus restoring some kind of karmic balance to the universe.
And maybe Biden will surprise us all and run for a second term, thus sparing us for another four years from a Kamala Harris presidency. (Oh, Amy! How I wanted you to be VP!)
And I’m prouder than ever to be an American. We’ve weathered a terrible storm. I know there’s more to come, so don’t ever paint me as a sunny optimist. But when it came down to a decision point, enough good-hearted Americans looked at this despicable man who was a disgrace to his office and said, “I don’t think so.”
Donald Trump is OUT. O-U-T. At least part of our national nightmare is OVER.