Hey, this is Allison. I am here with Brett, and you are listening to Red Menace,

and we are coming to you

with a special episode of a guest that we figured we would put together to just discuss

the election and the results of the election. If you're living under Iraq, then you may not know

that Donald Trump won both the electoral vote and the popular vote. The Republicans control the

Senate. And it also looks very possible at this point that they might take the house as well.

So that's kind of where we're at. We have some thoughts about it. I'm sure you all have some thoughts about it.

You know, kind of briefly, this is obviously a situation that I don't think was unpredictable.

The polling, you know, to the extent that anyone believes in polling anymore, was pretty, like, neck and neck.

Like, it was not clear who was going to win in looking at it from that.

I don't think anyone had Trump winning the popular vote, admittedly.

But, you know, kind of broadly, I think my thesis going into this, I imagine Brett's is going to be pretty similar,

that the Democrats ran like a historically bad campaign, essentially, just absolutely one of the worst campaigns that they probably could have run strategically.

And that's what got us here. And I think it's worth commenting on this.

You know, I always say this when Brett and I talk about electoral politics, like neither of us

are electoralists necessarily. But, you know, at the same time, these things matter. And I think

really importantly, everyone's trying to get their take sort of in retrospect about what happened

here. Right. And currently, the Democratic Party

take seems to be it's everyone else's fault besides ours, in particular. It is the fault of the

left. It's the fault of caring about social issues at all. It's the fault of, you know, kind of all

of these things. And so, you know, I think it's worth making an intervention

right now and taking the time to kind of comment on this and, you know, give our perspective

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