“Anyone but Bernie”, They Said.

Reflecting on the surreal night of November 3rd, and what’s coming next.

Lauren Elizabeth
4 min readNov 4, 2020

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Brian Snyder | Reuters

With November 3rd, 2020 come and gone, there’s nothing left to do except reflect on the surreal nature of what took place well into the early hours of November 4th, and will continue to take place over the coming days. It appears as though the nation is heading for one of the worst case scenarios that could have possibly unfolded for the Democratic Party, with the loss of Florida, Ohio, and likely North Carolina, and the red mirage materializing in other critical states like Michigan and Pennsylvania, paving the way for Donald Trump to do exactly what everyone feared he would do: claiming that he won the election, and preparing to take the case to court to stop the ballots coming in for Joe Biden from being counted.

Joe Biden can still possibly eke out a victory, but it’s safe to say that even if he gets close to doing so, the election is now close enough where Donald Trump can effectively steal it.

This should have been a landslide.

This should have been a race where the Democratic candidate should have been able to carry all but a handful of states, retaining the house and not just gaining the Presidency, but the Senate as well. Instead, the Democratic party sunk hundreds of millions of dollars into Amy McGrath’s campaign, wasted it on Jaime Harrison as well, will likely not gain the Senate, and are leaving their voters to deal with the fear that Trump will steal the Presidency as well.

I don’t think we have absorbed just how disastrous a Biden White House, coupled with the Republican Senate would be.

Even if Biden does barely manage to scrape out a win, this election showed the people exactly what happens when the Democratic party pushed away the majority of America for maybe 4% of Republican voters, and were left with really nothing to show for it.

I remember being told for months on end — by the MSNBC pundit class, and the liberal voter a like — that Biden was the most electable. I remember hearing “anyone but Bernie”, and hearing how he was too “extreme”. But I cannot say I’m surprised that even Fox News’ exit polling showed that Bernie Sanders won the ideological debate by a landslide, and…

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Lauren Elizabeth
Dialogue & Discourse

Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx