People discussing the election on the New York Times site:
" " One lesson I take from this election is that it's a really good idea to pick your party's candidate in a competitive process.
One has to look back on the 2016 Republican primary contest as a remarkably successful exercise in figuring out what voters wanted.
Democrats, by contrast, cleared the way for Biden to run for a second term and, when that became impossible, they cleared the way for his vice president to run in his place.
Maybe next time, they should try asking voters what they want.
" " Hate makes Trump's story appealing.
In general, stories that appeal to our people's worst selves play well.
But so do stories that appeal to our best selves. We haven't seen Democrats try to tell that kind of story - a "We can be a great, generous, kind nation" type of story.
Instead, they traffic in some version of "Things are fine the way they are," when that is just not what most people feel.
" " I have spent my career covering places with really existential problems like hunger extreme poverty, uncontrolled disease, civil war.
I think Americans are suffering from problems that are primarily psychological rather than material.
That does not make them less real.
If anything, it makes them even more powerful and more resistant to material solutions.
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I want to play this song to mark the 2024 presidential election:
Paul Simon - 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover (Official Audio)
uploader / channel: Paul Simon
(OK baby, hit it!)
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