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I’m still processing the election and its aftermath. Herewith a few additional observations.

• I was told that if I voted for Trump, dozens of celebrities and Hollywood potentates would leave the country. But none seem to be leaving. Which just goes to show that pragmatism doesn’t work.

• The Atlantic, which told us that Trump is literally Hitler (they literally said that), is not taking it well. They are especially mad at Twitter/X:

X has always had a nazi problem. . . Heaps of unfiltered posts that plainly celebrate racism, anti-Semitism, and outright Nazism are easily accessible and possibly even promoted by the site’s algorithms. All the while, Elon Musk—a far-right activist and the site’s owner, who is campaigning for and giving away millions to help elect Donald Trump—amplifies horrendous conspiracy theories about voter fraud, migrants run amok, and the idea that Jewish people hate white people. Twitter was always bad if you knew where to look, but because of Musk, X is far worse. (X and Musk did not respond to requests for comment for this article.)

It’s the last sentence that is the cheery on top: Musk—a “far-right activist”—declined to comment for an Atlantic hit piece!

• The New Republic is alarmed that even California shifted right.  Would you believe California voted to keep slavery? It was Proposition 6, which would have outlawed prison labor:

With an estimated 53 percent of votes counted so far, 55 percent of votes are opposed to repealing the involuntary servitude language [exempting prison labor from the slavery ban in the California constitution]. The outcome is all the more striking because the measure went unopposed by any group or political party. On the state’s official voter guide, the pro/con section notes that “no argument against Proposition 6 was submitted.”

In local elections and on statewide ballot questions, California voters rejected progressive policies on crime, housing, and more. . . In one instance, 62 percent of voters rejected a measure that would give local communities greater flexibility to enact rent-control measures. A minimum-wage increase to $18 per hour is currently trailing with 52 percent of voters opposed. And a measure that would make it easier to issue local infrastructure bonds is also running aground with 56 percent disapproval. . . it represents a significant setback for progressive governance and policymaking in the nation’s most populous state.

Maybe even California voters are starting to figure out that “progressive” governance is regressive.

• Promises, promises:

• One of the hottest ideas among the goo-goo (good government) reform community has been the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, in which consenting states would commit to pledging their electoral college votes to the winner of the popular vote, no matter how their state’s votes came out. This compact is almost certainly unconstitutional, but can anyone imagine California right now saying, “Oh, okay, we’ll award our electoral college votes to Trump.” If the compact had been in force for this election, here’s how the electoral vote would turn out:

Heh.

Likewise, if Congress has a sense of humor, it should call these clowns as witnesses at a hearing on the first day to testify in support of a bill to add four seats to the Supreme Court immediately:

C’mon, Professor Tribe. It’s politically feasible right now. It will show Congress is capable of bi-partisan action!