Not a good day for legalizing weed, and oh yeah, Trump won

 

Unsplash photo by Rick Proctor. 

I'm going to try to resume normal blogging tomorrow, but I don't see any point in ignoring the election. Some of you probably need to vent (or celebrate). So feel free to post your comments, I'll try to frequently check for them and approve them. 

You won't be able to avoid commentary on Trump's victory, so you don't need a lot here, but a couple of things: 

My pet issue (well, along with a few others) is what RAW called "The War on Some Drugs," so I have to report that marijuana legalization did badly Tuesday night. Reason magazine has things covered: Florida's legalization measure got a majority, but failed to pass, anyway, because Florida requires a 60 percent majority to change the constitution; legalization lost outright in North Dakota and South Dakota.  We'll see what happens next in marijuana legalization in the U.S., but the current trend is not great. 

Jesse Walker's commentary on the election, via Facebook: "It's not easy for a vice president to separate herself from an unpopular president, especially when she doesn't try.

"Other takeaways: turns out that inflation did in fact matter, that Muslims in Michigan do in fact care about the Gaza war, and that you can't count on the reasons Democrats are slipping among noncollege voters to magically go away when the voters aren't white.

"Finally: All those things would still be true even if 4% of the vote (not much!) had broken the other way and Harris had finished ahead. And all those dysfunctions on the Trump side that we'd be talking about if he'd lost? They're still real too."

Another take I spotted this morning: Tracing Woodgrains: "There is not a single moment this election that I felt heard or represented by Kamala Harris. Not one."

I noticed other takes, but that's enough. What do you think?