After Joe Biden was declared president-elect by the networks on Saturday, I gave myself the weekend to celebrate and recover. Eventually, I muted the television so I could do a little reading, but my eyes kept flitting back to the chyron in case Donald Trump declared martial law. As the election season heated up, I seemed to develop a dangerous habit of jogging into moving cars while doom-scrolling. Apart from the power he’s erratically wielded, he’s just not that interesting. AdvertisementFor the more than 72 million Americans who voted for him, the second highest tally in U.S. history after Biden, Trump — the slayer of Hillary Clinton and other progressive potentates — was the perfect battering ram.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 12, 2020 19:24 UTC