Well, I called it right. The election, that is. I’d rather not have but then I remembered Duke’s advice from the cartoon strip Doonesbury: “Always bet on the cornered rat.” OK, this wouldn’t have worked in 2020 but it is still generally sound advice.
That didn’t stop the day from being one of sick despair. It is a feeling many of us have become familiar with since 2016, but it doesn’t make it any better. I’d told my editor the day before that because I was going to stay up for the night, one way or another I wasn’t going to be in a fit state to file on Wednesday, and I wasn’t.
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