Hours ago, Vice President Kamala Harris officially conceded the 2024 election to Donald Trump.

But she did not concede everything.

While I concede this election, I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign.

Thank you. the fight that fueled this campaign.

The fight, the fight for freedom, for opportunity, for fairness, and the dignity of all people. A fight for the ideals at the heart of our nation, the ideals that reflect

America at our best. That is a fight. I will never give up. There are a lot of people

experiencing legitimate pain and sadness and fear right now.

English writer Evelyn Wall once wrote about a blow, expected, repeated, falling upon a bruise

with no smart or shock of surprise, only a dull and sickening pain, and the doubt whether another like it could

be born. And after 2016 and its aftermath, that sentiment for maybe half of this country or more

feels about right. Here we go again. Donald Trump now has a real shot at winning the popular vote. He is currently leading by

six million votes. Republicans are projected to take control of the Senate, and they are the

odds-on favorite to take control of the House of Representatives. How did this happen?

Well, as we try to begin to answer that, one of the best assessments I have read of the

current political climate came from journalist James Pogue in Vanity Fair earlier last month.

Pogue wrote a profile about Steve Bannon and the movement he and Trump have built on the

American right. In the piece, Pogue identifies some of the central motivations

in the MAGA movement, motivations like a yearning for traditionalism. If you followed this

election closely, you know what I'm talking about. You've seen the term trad tossed around to

describe a movement of conservatives who want to return to what they consider traditional American values,

one centered around a very retrograde version of the American family.

We saw this vision of America violently and angrily and bizarrely boosted by Tucker Carlson

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