"A Trump win would have also meant no second Trump impeachment, then no federal criminal prosecution of Trump for his involvement in an attempted insurrection."
"When Donald Trump’s megabill passed the Senate, consummating nearly a half-year of aggressively reactionary policymaking by the 47th president, a colleague commented that “it’s like the Biden presidency never happened.” That’s true in the sense that between Trump’s executive orders and the megabill, it’s hard to find a single stone unmoved from where he found it when he took office in January. But on reflection, it might be quite literally true. The country, and even the Democratic Party, would very likely have been in better condition today had Trump been reelected in 2020 over Joe Biden.
"By that, I don’t mean Trump reversing his 2020 election defeat in Congress, the courts, or via the Capitol riot; I mean had he gained 77,000 more votes in four battleground states and hence won a majority in the Electoral College. Barring some lurid scandal, Democrats (with scattered dissents) would have accepted Trump’s victory as legitimate just as they did after his 2016 win, which similarly came with a national popular-vote deficit" . . .
Being affiliated with New York Magazine, author Kilgore is strongly anti-Trump.
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