2016 and 2024

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : Stunningly, Trump fared better in New York City this year than he did in 2020.
48% : My life, like those of many Black people of my generation, was shaped not by the brutality of segregation, as my parents' lives had been, but by the success of the battles of the nineteen-fifties and sixties to uproot it.
47% : I awoke the morning after the election thinking not of the battles that supplanted segregation but of what people must have felt at the time of Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 Supreme Court decision that enshrined it.
30% : The decision of Kamala Harris's campaign to invest heavily in appealing to anti-Trump Republicans and to showcase Liz Cheney's support was a product of bright-side thinking -- of an optimistic belief that the ranks of the G.O.P. were not entirely lost and that at least a meaningful minority of the Party sees and understands the danger that Trump represents.
29% : This time, voters in state after state decisively chose Trump, who has become more autocratic and belligerent, building a popular-vote advantage for a man now wholly unfit to hold office.
26% : In the years since Trump lost the last election, he launched a coup attempt, became a defendant in four criminal cases, and was convicted (so far) of thirty-four felonies.
22% : At the conclusion of the last election, Trump incited an attack on Congress to prevent the certification of the results, which led to him being impeached for the second time.
22% : The cowardice of Senate Republicans -- who, having been evacuated from the Capitol building as a Trumpist mob advanced, nonetheless refused to convict Trump -- was a catastrophic abdication that directly enabled this moment.

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