No one is happy in this strange and awful time. But there is a particular circle of unhappiness reserved for people still reeling from unexpected loss in 2016.

For many Democrats, election night in 2016 unfolded with the sickening trajectory of a horror movie in which the teenage protagonists break out the beer and party on, unaware that the serial killer they thought they had vanquished is looming outside the window.

The watch parties, the pantsuits, the balloons, the blue-tinted cocktails, the giddiness, the sense of history, the electoral projections showing that Hillary Clinton would surely defeat Donald J. Trump — to Democrats, these now look like quaint snapshots from some credulous prelapsarian world. And now, with the next presidential election approaching and Joseph R. Biden Jr. well ahead of President Trump in the polls, the traumatized, anxious Democratic voters of 2020 are not making the same mistake again.

“I’m assuming in my mind that Trump wins, because I can’t deal with being let down like that again,” said Helen Rosenthal, a Democrat who represents the Upper West Side on the New York City Council. “Secretly, in a little corner in the back of my mind, I’m wishing and hoping that Biden wins. But most of my brain is saying, ‘OK, Trump wins and New York is not getting a fiscal bailout and we’re going to lose more ground on the environment, we’re going to lose on Roe v. Wade, we’re going to lose on health care.’”

“I’m already depressed about it, if that helps,” she added.

It’s hard to overstate the degree of anxiety in America right now, as the country confronts a Hydra of troubles: the pandemic, the economy, the fires, the protests, the violent plots against public officials, the assault on voting rights, the state-sponsored disinformation, the sense that democracy itself is on the ballot.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/us/politics/trump-democrats.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4658744&forum_id=2#41165088)

lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4658744&forum_id=2#41165126)

gas these people

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4658744&forum_id=2#41165151)

I thought the new party line was that the polls WERE accurate last time??

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4658744&forum_id=2#41171690)

"b-b-but we ran it up with illegals in California!!!"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4658744&forum_id=2#41165191)

https://mobile.twitter.com/henryrodgersdc/status/1319466458624282627

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4658744&forum_id=2#41169450)

Author: batgod (cowgod)

Biden is up way too fuckin' much in early voting and will win for some reason. Don't know why someone would actually vote for him, makes no sense imho. It's not unlike Captain Marvel's $1 billion box office, just millions of indifferent NPCs eager to embrace something that sucks.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4658744&forum_id=2#41171724)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4658744&forum_id=2#41171751)

Author: batgod (cowgod)

Biden is up way too fuckin' much in early voting and will win for some reason. Don't know why someone would actually vote for him, makes no sense imho. It's not unlike Captain Marvel's $1 billion box office, just millions of indifferent NPCs eager to embrace something that sucks.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4658744&forum_id=2#41171724)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4658744&forum_id=2#41171752)

Author: DrakeMallard

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4658744&forum_id=2#41165047)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4658744&forum_id=2#41171771)

Nate Silver

@NateSilver538

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1h

Always the same stupid shit in the final 10 days of the campaign. Some of it's from good people who are just getting competitive or stressed out or whatever. But the absolute worst people are always their absolute worstest at this point in time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4658744&forum_id=2#41198519)

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4658744&forum_id=2#41198909)

*watches the MAGAs scurry*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4658744&forum_id=2#41198869)

https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1323634686233595905?s=21

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4658744&forum_id=2#41251528)

EDIT: i clicked assuming it was going to be a mid-20s woman, not a fully grown adult male

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4658744&forum_id=2#41251532)