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by taylodl 588 days ago
The fact that two main parties emerge because of our method of voting is known as Duverger's Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law)

My gut is business as usual in America, what we've been doing since the end of WWII, has come to an end. Biden was the last of the post-war era presidents.

Trump is a completely different animal with a completely different mindset and the majority of checks and balances to keep him in check have been removed. America is going to be fundamentally different as a result. Don't think we're going to have four years of Trump and then go back to the way things used to be. That's not going to happen. Too much will have been destroyed to easily go back. We're in new territory, we're at the dawn of a new era - and I'm afraid it's going to be a much darker era than the one we just left.