Jonathan V. Last

Like it's not written anywhere that he can't turn this around, that God knows it's not written anywhere even that you can't have a bunch of shenanigans in 2026 that result in

Things which are quasi-legal, right?

You know, a close election where the House is being decided by like two or three seats and maybe, you know, some... The Missouri Senate, the Ohio Board of Elections is like, huh, we think that in this district where Democrat won, we're not sure we can certify those results because reasons.

And all of that, God knows, is...

independent of the possibility that Trump could legitimately keep winning, right?

Maybe we wind up with a, maybe the AI bubble bursts.

We go into a recession and people blame Democrats.

Like, I think that's the less likely of the two possibilities, right?

Normally they blame the incumbent president's party, but that's not like a rule of physics.

You know, that's not inevitable, right?

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.