Here We Go Again: We Are Now Faced With Ominous Second Trump Term

By The Nation Photos: YouTube Screenshots\Wikimedia Commons This week, pundits, journalists, and Internet trolls alike started to sift through the wreckage of the 2024 election to try to figure out what the Democrats did wrong. Did they hug too hard right? Was Kamala Harris’s run too rushed to be coherent? Is our country simply sexist? For our national affairs correspondent John Nichols, the mistakes of the Harris campaign started with Liz Cheney. The point of appearances with Cheney, Nichols writes, was to lean in on democracy as a unifying rallying point—“to signal to conservatives that they could split with Donald Trump’s Republican Party over their concerns about the former president’s election denialism.” The issue was that “while many Democratic tacticians were enthusiastic about Cheney’s jumping on board as a Harris backer…Republican voters couldn’t have cared less.” But many of us would like to think Democratic misdeeds are more fundamental than a few press events—or even Harris’s decision not to deviate from the Biden administration’s line on Israel. (Read more on how Gazans are feeling about Trump’s victory here). As Jeet Heer wrote earlier this week, the party’s pursuit of former Republicans and elites only served to further alienate the working...