"This Is The Way The World Ends/This Is The Way The World Ends"

If you were a Bush 2000 guy and now a Biden guy, this feel like a cake walk.

— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) November 4, 2020

Lost in the discussion about Trump going full autocrat is the reality that he still has a very good shot of winning the election legitimately even if all the votes are counted. More Americans than in 2016 willingly signed up for the worst leadership imaginable.

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 4, 2020

Incumbency really does have its privileges. The cry in '72 (when Richard Nixon ran again, for you children in the audience) was: "Don't switch dicks in mid-screw!" It was not a pro-Nixon sentiment. He won, easily. And then we had Watergate.

There's an evergreen graphic for this statement. https://t.co/Rp0YUEN7J2 pic.twitter.com/YV8wCDOlEe

— Mike Elgan (@MikeElgan) November 4, 2020

Trump could end up switching from “stop the counting” to calling for recounts if these margins hold. https://t.co/IyS92To759

— Alan Rappeport (@arappeport) November 4, 2020

Which, frankly, would not be unreasonable. It also wouldn't necessarily change things. Recounts seldom do.

In 10 days, this might look like a serious thumping.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) November 4, 2020

Just to underline that point, because I think we need to.

It turns out that Never Trump was a less serious part of the Republican Party in 2020 than the ex-Whigs and Know Nothings were.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) November 4, 2020

As I was saying: a "democratic" and an "anti-democratic" party.

Please go to bed. https://t.co/YHGeLmi46c

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) November 4, 2020

Yeah, that's still out there, too.

Somehow it's fitting that Trump's going to go out with a bang *and* a whimper.

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) November 4, 2020