Jess Lahitou

Tim Kaine and Mike Pence both showed themselves superior to their presidential ticket counterparts. Ouch.

The 2016 election has, for a while now, felt eerily akin to 1984 (lots ‘o doublespeak coming out of Trump and his supporters). Or The Hunger Games, to take a more recent example of dystopian genre fiction. Wherein, government becomes solely about politics and the media spectacle, rather than actual policies and ideas.

Rejoicing or weeping will depend on who you are, but let’s look at what happened either way.

Democrats:

If Hillary Clinton has major medical concerns, now is the time to tell the American public.

Prejudice against women has existed in this country since its very inception. Indeed, prejudice against women has existed throughout all of history, long predating the presence of America, and sexism continues on unabated today, in most parts of the world. And it goes mostly unaddressed, much less eradicated.

Never before has a group of college students expressed such clever commitment… to the tax code.

Everyone but Michael Moore underestimated the level of economic angst and cultural upheaval occurring in the Rust Belt, that collection of states forming a sloped capital “E” along the Great Lakes: Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania.

Dear Mr. Morgan,

So Michael Moore is known as a provocateur.

Hello, Americans. Another Wednesday morning, another nightmare day after Tuesday voting. What happened last night? Donald Trump won three out of four states.