I’m also tremendously relieved that the election’s over—suboptimal outcome notwithstanding—for my own reasons. What I’ve realized rather acutely over the last few months, though maybe I didn’t actually articulate it to myself until after the returns were in, is that I hate horse race writing. Paying attention to the swing states and this week’s new poll and the latest gotcha gaffe from one or another candiate and all the rest of that bullshit, every bit of it’s noxious. Political philosophy I find interesting, and public policy, but actual politics I tend to find tedious. The prospect of not having to pay attention to all that—at least not until the next midterms—is a highly welcome one.