Even though I hoped Biden would win, I was stunned at the closeness of the race. I was stumped.
Half of the country had behaved in a way that really did not make sense to me. But there it was. I was hoping someone could explain what happened. I think the term for my thinking is “cognitive dissonance.”
I am usually pretty good at putting myself in someone else’s shoes — here, I was damned if I could understand the perspective of millions of people.
I found it – and it put a little damper on my joyous celebration. The New York Times came to the rescue. Thank you, Frank Bruni.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/07/opinion/sunday/trump-election-performance.html