POLITICS | 2024 US ELECTION
In The Wake Of The Election, We Prepare For The Storm
Making sense of the 2024 election by looking forward
It’s mid-afternoon on the day that the 2024 presidential election was called for Donald Trump. I’m sitting down to write because I’ve run out of paper to tear into tiny pieces between the weight of my existential dread and patriotic grief.
I am so deeply disappointed in and embarrassed by my country today.
History repeats
I remember the morning after election day in 2016, after I had already moved to Prague. How I walked home from our local expat bar alone, at 7 am, feeling like it was the beginning of the end. We’d been up all night, raucous excitement giving way to shuddering disappointment and talk of what the future — if there would be a future at all — might hold.
I clawed myself back from those feelings, and went to work that day. I fielded question after question from disbelieving students about what could have possibly gone wrong for us to elect such a vile and despicable character to the level of the presidency.
I still don’t have an answer to that question, but we’ve done it again.
