The New Yorker Magazine Versus Trump.

I have just finished reading eight essays published in The New Yorker Magazine which attempt to explain “what the election results mean for the nation and the world.”

If this bundle of texts represents how the liberal intelligentsia will teach the rest of us about the meaning of the 2024 election, as well as what our side now needs to do in response to what happened last week, to quote Grandpa, ‘oy zuch en vai und der plaitzes’ (read: things are really fucked up.)

It’s so bad that Jelani Cobb, who happens to be the Dean at Columbia University’s School of Journalism briefly considered leaving the country after Trump won in 2016, and now he believes that we are in far worse shape than we were back then.

Susan Glasser, who covers Washington for the magazine, believes that this election represents a “disastrous revelation about what this country really is,” as opposed to what it should be.

To put November 7th into a proper historical perspective, Adam Gopnik visited Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor to ruminate on how and why the first Civil War began and what we might do to prevent a second Civil War from breaking out.

But the best is the essay by Timothy Snyder who wrote a brilliant book, Bloodlands, about what happened in Central Europe when the territory was under the sway of…