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The voting is over, and it feels like election 2000, which made for great theater.  Both sides still have hope, and something has finally driven the pandemic off the front page.  Hollywood likes this type of closing.  However, unlike the past, Hollywood now leaves stories open-ended enough to have a sequel.  This election is doing the same.

Part II the Recounts

This election may hold the record for the number of lawyers hired to step-in and contest the results.  While many of these races are beyond the narrow margins for recount, expect the Republicans to sue anyway, based upon the way mail-in voting was handled.  Frankly, this will be boring at the state level but could be high drama if a successful appeal is made to the Supreme Court, which decided the 2000 election by stopping the recount in Florida.  If the Supreme Court decides this election, there could be fireworks and/or firebombings!  Both are mezmerizing in uniquely different ways.

Part III the 2024 Election

If The Donald loses this election, he can run again.  This has been done before with success (see Grover Cleveland).  The pandemic may continue and tank the economy while The Donald finally gets his wish to create his own cable TV network.  He could use it to bash the government for four more years.  Old Joe Biden might find the economy and The Donald too much to face and wear out before re-election.  This scenario does not look very different from the 1932 Weimar Republic election, where the aging Paul von Hindenburg won a run-off election but failed to keep the National Socialist Deutsche Workers Party (NSDAP) from power.  Upon Hindenburg’s death in 1934, his rival took over and the rest was history.  The NSDAP revived the economy, taking it from depression depths to industrial might, and the country ruled most of the continent (before losing WWII).  More movies have been made about the rise and fall of the Third Reich than any other period in world history.
 
On the other hand, if the President wins re-election, the Democrats are finished as a political party.  After getting out the vote in the biggest turnout in American history, if they still lose, it will completely demoralize an already fragile coalition of diverse people.  Republicans will lose too as the Trump loyalists will become Trumpublicans and work to virtually eliminate popular vote elections in favor of Patriot Elections, designed to “protect America from illegals.”
 
If this reads like a dystopian story, remember that dystopian is a very popular category in streaming media.

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