A lot of Americans, and foreigners who love the United States, will be re-reading Tyler Cowen’s now-promoted-to-classic July 17 article on the “vibe shift” that allowed Donald Trump and the Republican Party to win a numerically narrow, but pervasive and thorough, victory in last evening’s quadrennial elections. Cowen, writing in the last hours before President Joe Biden agreed to abandon hopes of re-election, was able to rattle off 19 enumerated reasons that support for Trump had suddenly become more respectable to express publicly — and the list, as Cowen mentioned, was far from exhaustive.