Trump will make history as the 45th and now 47th president, NBC News projects, saying he will fix an ailing country and despite warnings he will rule as an authoritarian.
There's a sign you can see in many shops that sell beautiful but fragile items: LOVELY TO LOOK AT, DELIGHTFUL TO HOLD, BUT ONCE YOU BREAK IT, THEN IT'S SOLD.
You can say the same about democracy.
Between the gerrymandering, electoral college, stacked courts in case it was close, the whole thing was rigged already. All the land outvoted the people.
The US has a massive political and cultural influence all over the world.
Trump's victory will open a whole new Pandora's box when it comes to geopolitics, climate (in)action, and support of racist, sexist and xenophobic policies.
His campaign strategy will probably be used by politicians all over the world, and will embolden them to try more and more unhinged bullshit.
I don't know how it will personally affect you, but it probably will in many many direct and indirect ways.
Maybe not about elections, per se, but I think you forgot what happened between 2016 to 2020. Almost every day news headlines were like "Trump tweets dumb thing", "Trump announces dumb thing", "Trump does dumb thing". This election period was quieter on the scale of things compared to then, and we're headed right back for it.