There Will Be No Laughing on Election Night

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In November 2000, I fell asleep to Al Gore being declared the next president, woke up to George W. Bush having won, and by lunchtime no one had any idea who had won or what was going on. What I remember the most is finding the whole thing very funny. And it was funny.

I know now that being able to find such chaos amusing was a privilege, and an ugly one, of being an aimless but mostly…