The Oracle of ’24

Donald Trump
Voters across the political spectrum are still trying to digest, understand, and integrate the undeniable heft of Trump’s victory, in which he swept every battleground state and will most likely become the first Republican since 2004 to win the popular vote. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images
Tara Palmeri
November 15, 2024

The reelection of Donald Trump surely feels like a bad dream to many, and to many others like vindication for all their gripes about Joe Biden. Voters across the political spectrum are still trying to digest, understand, and integrate the undeniable heft of Trump’s victory, in which he swept every battleground state and will most likely become the first Republican since 2004 to win the popular vote. Democrats have already launched a dozen competing postmortems, although it’s hard to predict how any of this ends. Republicans went to great pains to write an autopsy report after Mitt Romney lost in 2012, which encouraged the party to win over Latinos. Trump won four years later by ignoring its conclusions entirely.