Some people are just determined to be miserable.

Left-wing commentators, journalists, and academics are on track to share in a major political victory. Odds favor Joe Biden in his attempt to beat an incumbent president. But many left-wingers are despondent this week over the fact that only a handful of electoral votes separate Biden from President Trump. It is not good enough, these people say, that their team will likely win the White House. It is not good enough, they add, that Trump may lose the popular vote by as many as 6 million or 7 million votes. The fact that the president is giving Biden a run for his money is proof that the United States is a deeply broken, racist hellhole.

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