National Review senior political correspondent Jim Geraghty, on today’s edition of The Editors, observed how the Left’s reaction to Trump’s victory this year is much different than in 2016.

As Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in 2016, Trump’s first win “was a bigger shock.” This time, however, “Trump won the popular vote by 1.5 percent . . . and won every contested swing state,” Geraghty said. “I think liberals and Democrats recognized that this was a legitimate win and that the country did not want what they were selling. And that’s what’s fueling a great deal of the recriminations. And I think that means there’s just a broader acceptance that yeah, Trump is president. He’s gonna be president, health permitting.”

Geraghty said that this time, there is “less insistence that that can’t possibly be happening. Also the fact that it was preceded by a solid year of Biden looking old. And I think . . . everybody [is] kind of getting used to the idea that, holy smokes, you know, even after January 6, even after a stolen-election talk, et cetera, even after the indictments, even after the conviction, Donald Trump could still return to the Oval Office. And that’s where we are.”

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