Jonathan V. Last

Lots of things could happen.

Here's what I say.

Yesterday turned out as well as you could have asked for it to turn out.

If you and I had sat down and say, what are the results that would be the best possible case scenario?

It would have looked basically like what we got.

Like that's necessary, but not sufficient for rolling back all this stuff.

No, but I would say that we are never going to be able to go back to where we came from, which is bad.

Like, you know, Sarah is like, oh, we'll just build something that's new, but even better that fixes all the faults of the old systems.

And I'm like, that's not how these things work.

Like we might get the chance to build something new, but it'll still be a slightly crappier version of what we used to have.

That's that's just how it always is.

And shitification.

It's in shitification.

The shitification of America.

And that's the best case scenario.

Right.

The best case scenarios.

And but I've I have given up the hope that we could ever go back to American political life as it existed before.

For my entire lifetime, from essentially like 1980, I was a kid, a little kid in 1980 to 2015.

And I think that world is gone.