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us at death panel underscore. I'm Beatrice Adler Bolton and today I'm joined by all three of my co-hosts,

Ardy Viracant. Hello. Bill Rocco. Hey. And Jules Gil Peterson. Hi. Now the 2024 United States

presidential election has come to a close and we are staring down a second Trump term. So today we got the full panel together so the four of us can talk through what a second Trump term might mean and discuss some of the many things that are being blamed for the election results in the immediate aftermath of Harris's

loss.

Politics, of course, is not neatly confined to electoral cycles, but after any big election, there

is always a rush to react and offer succinct or singular explanations for the outcome, and

rarely are these hot takes right or even, frankly, insightful.

Often, these post-mortem analyses boil down to some form of reactionary. And rarely are these hot takes right or even frankly insightful.

Often these postmortem analyses boil down to some form of reactionary scolding, like the claim that Democrats leaned too far into identity politics,

or all kinds of finger-pointing the culpability away from the party structure

or systems and institutions of governance, or a kind of smug, I told you so,

don't say I didn't warn you, I can't believe you didn't listen to me, attitude that helps

prevent people from actually learning anything from what has happened. And interestingly,

...