“My sense is that if Trump wins, Hillary supporters will be sad,” the left-wing blogger tweeted the day of the 2016 election. “If Hillary wins, Trump supporters will be angry. Important difference.” Sally Kohn turned out to be wrong that year about her own side, which angrily set about delegitimizing President Trump’s victory. She was wrong too in her apparent assumption, shared by shop owners who boarded up their windows, that Trump supporters would react as violently to his defeat as Black Lives Matter reacted to a death in Minneapolis.

This is not to say that Trump and many of his supporters are responding gracefully to their candidate’s failure to repeat his 2016 feat of winning the presidency by a margin of 77,736 votes in three crucial states (Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania). They are not consoled that Joe Biden’s margin of victory in this year’s three crucial states (Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin) was an even smaller 43,809 votes.