Four years ago, deep into that absurd, hallucinatory election witching hour, I read a post on Bustle with the headline, "Could Hillary still win?" It was penned by one of Bustle's many SEO-divining bloggers, and it made the case, as the walls were closing in on November 8, that Clinton needed to eek out exponentially unlikely victories in Wisconsin and Michigan to make up for the campaign's shortcomings in Pennsylvania, Florida, and Ohio. (You can still find the bones of it if you look hard enough, though the headline has since been changed.) My memory from that evening has fractured into a million atomic pieces; it is almost funny, in retrospect, to consider the innumerable storylines that zoomed through the timeline at warp speed in the aftermath of Trump's victory. The Steve Bannon catastrophe, the
November 2016 revisited
November 2016 revisited
November 2016 revisited
Four years ago, deep into that absurd, hallucinatory election witching hour, I read a post on Bustle with the headline, "Could Hillary still win?" It was penned by one of Bustle's many SEO-divining bloggers, and it made the case, as the walls were closing in on November 8, that Clinton needed to eek out exponentially unlikely victories in Wisconsin and Michigan to make up for the campaign's shortcomings in Pennsylvania, Florida, and Ohio. (You can still find the bones of it if you look hard enough, though the headline has since been changed.) My memory from that evening has fractured into a million atomic pieces; it is almost funny, in retrospect, to consider the innumerable storylines that zoomed through the timeline at warp speed in the aftermath of Trump's victory. The Steve Bannon catastrophe, the