# Interesting aftermath articles

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**Created:** [November 7, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-aftermath-articles/924991 "2020-11-07T17:48:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-aftermath-articles/924991/1 "2020-11-07T17:48:52Z")

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So after reading the good news this morning, I ran across a couple of interesting and thought-provoking post-electoral analysis articles and about the aftermath.

> **[Trump Is Gone. Trumpism Just Arrived](https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/trump-is-gone-trumpism-just-arrived-886?fbclid=IwAR1I20v0ZvWAr_Vt1i05d03LJlj2U_ew-Qwszm42S3tf7pMwYAAIe9OWjfo)**
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> The air has been cleared. And democracy is working.

Now I know he’s fairly conservative, but he does bring up some interesting questions.

> **[America’s Next Authoritarian Will Be Much More Competent](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/trump-proved-authoritarians-can-get-elected-america/617023/?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_term=2020-11-06T18%3A03%3A28&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR1_3HeHOnVXB1cg9uJsXg3yAYGDyrSzozW4uJpvFlwKAXKB6TYUf5KZmZk)**
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> Trump was ineffective and easily beaten. A future strongman won’t be.

This one is more chilling, but worth reading.

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**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-aftermath-articles/924991/2 "2020-11-07T17:59:47Z")

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Yup. Trump voters haven’t lost their appetite for Trumpism one bit. The most common refrain among many less-than-enthusiastic Trump voters was “He’s my man…but I wish he would stop those awful tweets, behave better, stop being so helter-skelter, focus more”.

They will find an authoritarian next time who will voice all their grievances just as satisfactorily, but do things with a razor-sharp focus and far more professionalism. Maybe even some photogenic young guy.

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**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-aftermath-articles/924991/3 "2020-11-08T21:26:37Z")

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Well possibly, but it is likely only going to be as possible as the democrats make it though it is certainly a danger.  
In a way, winning was the easy part. After denigrating Trumps activities over the past 4 years they’ve certainly left themselves something of a hostage to fortune both to the wider electorate and also their own people.  
Woe betide if things don’t go exactly as planned. If the pandemic response is in any way inept (or even if it is hampered by events yet to be determined) or if there are policy failures (which there surely will be given the republican overall performance) and you get any internal political strife (which could spring from any sense of disillusionment).  
A unified republican party behind a clearly _not Trump_ candidate is always going to be a danger especially if the suprising demographics voting breakdown is to be trusted and can be sustained.

One thing from Andrew Sullivan’s article I particularly liked

> The writer Jamie Kirchick says that everything Trump says makes sense if it is preceded by the following words: “And now, Donnie from Queens, you’re on the air.”