November 8 was a bad day for Hillary Clinton, who has lost both of her two tries to become the first woman president, her goal since 2001 when her husband left office, and her obsessive ambition since the mid 1970s, if the stories about her are true.

It was also a bad day for Barack Obama, who failed to install his successor and will now see his legacy, such as it is, be taken apart in installments by the Republican Party. It was a very bad day for Vogue magazine, forced to cancel its plans for back-to-back, wall-to-wall photo-shoots of Madam President, celebrating Year One of Her Eminence. But it was the worst day of all for identity politics, the race/gender grievance industrial complex, and the “emerging majority” that was supposed to rise from it.