He's just the poster boy willing to be the shameless frontman that can sing and dance for the easily distracted pearl-clutching masses while his backers ensure that through him they'll get their agenda through. The democratic process is just an annoying inconvenience to them and he gets them through that. 

Systematic moves have been made in his favor ever since his indictments and everyone just scratched their chin and moved on until the next move.

Do you really think someone like Elon Musk would be so personally committed unless he had something to gain that would otherwise be out of his reach?

He said, “We don’t need the votes,” and “we got more votes than anybody’s ever had.”

-C!

The only positive thing I can think of is that he did come away with that clear popular vote win in additional to the Electoral College. In means we're spared the unrest of either Trump's subsequent attempts to overturn the election or a long, drawn-out series of recounts.

Not much of a silver lining, but I'll take what I can get.

Of course, Trump is such a sore winner that we're all going to be compulsory guests of his Gloat City penthouse apartment from now until the end of time.

 ... Their fears are based on bigotry really. So, yes, I'd say people are bigots. Nothing new.

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And it was the naked sanctioned exploitation of those fears and resentments, mostly compounded by their under-appreciated economic anxiety, that influenced their vote. And what needs to be re-evaluated moving forward is the value of the ground game methodology vs that of social media. 

We're going to look back at this time as the Elom Election.

They've never behaved with the urgency the situation required with the rightward tilt of the Repubs since the Tea Party and accelerated by Trump and co.