Biden Is Projected To Be The President-Elect. Here’s How It All Went Down.

My final take on this campaign is … IDK, to be honest. Harris ascending to the vice presidency is a huge milestone in the history of this nation and clearly important.

But other storylines and narratives? I’m just not sure yet. Perry has made this point before, but the results of the 2020 election are still coming in, making any takes now pretty premature. Also, the vote we have so far paints a fairly muddled picture — maybe the clearest takeaway is the repudiation of Trump specifically.

But as for politics more broadly, and how much it goes back to “normal” — how much democratic (small “d”) norms and values will be respected again — I just don’t know. I don’t think many actors in the Republican Party, the majority of whom have looked the other way or supported the Trump administration’s anti-democratic moves, will suddenly gain a new reverence for those values. Especially when voters didn’t seem to punish them electorally for the last four years. But again … we’ll just have to see.