Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Too early to celebrate! Many are overly focused on the Biden win. To focus on the fact that he lost is to ignore the real threat. It is to ignore the fact that the ideology he supports is stronger today than it was four years ago. He got 10 million more votes than he did last time. The people have said that sure, we did not win this time, but more believe in him today than they did four years ago. I am afraid the fight to make America great again has just begun. It is not yet time to celebrate. My guess is this loss will spur his supporters into fighting even harder to regain lost ground. Now is not the time to become complacent. Democrats and Republicans are currently deadlocked for control of the Senate. Democrats have kept the House but are unlikely to expand their majority, despite predictions of another blue wave. The Supreme Court is currently one shaped by Trump and will place hurdles and blocks at every step for Biden. Currently there are 26 Republican Governors and 25 Democrats. And that is not the half of it.COVID-19 is likely to get much worse before it gets any better until Biden takes over and has any chance of putting his strategy in place. President-elect Joe Biden has defeated President Donald Trump, but his inauguration isn’t until January 20, 2021. Until then, there are no signs that Trump will give up any levers of power early — if anything, the opposite is true, as Trump now contests the election results. So Trump’s failed response to Covid-19 will continue, unchecked, over the next couple of months. The US’s coronavirus epidemic is already among the worst in the world, with a death toll from Covid-19 that now stands above 240,000. It’s fall, and winter is coming, both bringing several issues that could make America’s outbreak even worse: Schools will continue to reopen, the cold will push people into poorly ventilated indoor spaces in which the virus can spread more easily, the holidays will bring families together in potential superspreading events, and a possible flu season could further strain health care systems. Now is not the time to celebrate victory, since that could lead to the thought that the worse is past. It is not. It will take years to undo all that Trump has done. Now is the time to tell Biden supporters to buckle up and hunker down. Because that is exactly what Trump and his supporters are going to do.

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