QOTD.

Powerline:

The worst thing about the coming Democratic victory (if that's what we're about to witness) is not that the Democrats will take over power. In a democracy control switches from party to party fairly regularly. It isn't even that the Democrats seem committed to a hard leftist agenda. We've been free from significant leftist experimentation for decades, but one must expect it from time to time.

The worst thing is that the left-wing Dems are poised to take control at a time of apparent economic crisis, or something approaching it. History suggests that under these circumstances, the party that gains control keeps it for longer than normal. FDR's victory in 1932 was the start of 20 years of Democratic control. After Reagan prevailed in 1980, the Republicans occupied the White House for 12 years. Clinton came to power towards the end of a mild recession. But for a quirk in the electoral process, the Dems would have held the White House for at least 12 years thereafter.

Nearly eight years later, Bush v. Gore has been reduced to a "quirk." Awesome.