Dan GillmorNov 6, 2024

Updated (see below)

Like you, I've been absorbing the news today. As I write this, it looks more and more possible that the American experiment will end in January.

I'll be back tomorrow, but right now I just want to wait and see.

PS: To all the journalists who barely deigned to notice the likelihood that the next president would be an outright fascist – and did nothing to stop him – you have my contempt.

Further thoughts in my newsletter:

https://cornerstone.ghost.io/essentials-november-6-2024/

Essentials, November 6, 2024

Extremism won, and journalism helped On January 20, 2025, one of the supremely dangerous people in American history will re-occupy the White House, reclaiming all of the awesome powers of the presidency. Donald Trump and his extreme right-wing apparatchiks will issue a blizzard of executive orders, all designed to reverse

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Show threadByMatthewPorter

@dangillmor

It would have been great to see a blowout for Harris, but sadly that was never going to happen.

Meanwhile, not a single state has been called for red that didn’t go red in 2020. When he lost.

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Show threadViennaMikeNov 6, 2024
@ByMatthewPorter @dangillmor But it's not looking good in Pennsylvania, which would be the ballgame. Hope this turns around.