The Big Lesson of the Election, Cont.

Robert Reich and others have pointed out that, although Trump got about a million more votes than he did in 2020, the big news — the decisive fact –– is that Harris got about ten million fewer votes than Biden did in 2020. It appears that one million people who voted for Biden in 2020 decided to vote for Trump, and nine million people who voted for Biden in 2020 decided not to vote for either Harris or Trump. Why would nine million people sit out the most consequential election since since 1860? Why couldn’t nine million previous Biden voters fail to see that keeping Trump from winning was critical to the survival of American democracy? Why did resentment and frustration overcome rational thought for so many people? Trump’s behavior may enlighten these malcontents, wrecking our country in the process.