The streets near my neighborhood, normally clogged with cars dropping off children at an elementary school down the road, were mostly empty. Public schools were closed, and the same yard signs I'd been walking and driving past for the last several months - Trump/Vance, Harris/Walz - seemed, ironically, beside the point.
The attitude of the American electorate generally hovers between nihilism and sentimentality, and both tenors vacillated wildly in prominence on the Democratic side throughout the night.
It's easy to look ahead during elections like this one, treating them as a referendum on how the hypothetical masses of the future will look back on this moment, whether as a concerted press against fascism or a capitulation to the most bigoted, small-minded impulses of this country's fear-motivated populace.
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