The last time Donald Trump was on the ballot I got laid off the next morning. I dodged that bullet this time by being unemployed by the time election night came around. I’ve been thinking about those twin capstones now as we all sit and anticipate what looks like a painfully close victory where Biden limps past the finish line without a Democratic senate majority behind him. In 2016 I went into election night disappointed by the previous eight years of Democratic leadership -- an initial few years of having majorities across government and failing to do anything meaningful with it, followed up by a long constipated denouement of divided government in which Obama was content to try nothing more ambitious than becoming deporter-in-chief and kind of intervening in a
Joe Chu-Hiden
Joe Chu-Hiden
Joe Chu-Hiden
The last time Donald Trump was on the ballot I got laid off the next morning. I dodged that bullet this time by being unemployed by the time election night came around. I’ve been thinking about those twin capstones now as we all sit and anticipate what looks like a painfully close victory where Biden limps past the finish line without a Democratic senate majority behind him. In 2016 I went into election night disappointed by the previous eight years of Democratic leadership -- an initial few years of having majorities across government and failing to do anything meaningful with it, followed up by a long constipated denouement of divided government in which Obama was content to try nothing more ambitious than becoming deporter-in-chief and kind of intervening in a