Letters From The Wasteland

Letters From The Wasteland

The Nihilism Election

Nothing mattered except hurting someone else.

Thad Zajac
Nov 07, 2024
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In the end, the majority of voters that turned out just wanted to punish someone.

The vice president, having run what was believed to be a nearly flawless campaign, fell fourteen million votes short of President Biden’s 2020 turnout. Donald Trump, a convicted felon and insurrectionist who refused to peacefully leave the White House four years ago, got t…

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