“The key fact is that Donald J Trump has been decisively defeated. He will be a one-term president. This was by no means inevitable. But in a massive turnout, where both sides mobilized unprecedented hordes of voters, and when the GOP actually made gains in the House, and did much better than expected, Trump lost. A critical mass of swing voters and moderate Republicans picked Biden over him. **Our nightmare of four years — an unstable, malignant, delusional maniac at the center of our national life — is over. ** Take a moment to feel that relief. Breathe. Rejoice. He’s done.

He will not concede. He cannot concede — because he would suffer a psychic break if he did. And what we witnessed Thursday night, in his drained yet still despicable rant, was a picture of a sad, lost, delusional person, a man utterly unfit to hold the office he holds, lying and lying and lying, spinning paranoid conspiracy theories…”

-Andrew Sullivan, November 6, 2020 (before the election officially “called” on November 7)