NY Dispatch: Last night the world watched anxiously as the results came in, state by state, their outlines colored red, pink, light blue, dark blue, and gray. Pundits opined breathlessly about what it all meant, slicing and dicing our population into bitesize demographics. They assigned a herd mentality to groups divided by age, gender, and race. As the early results came in, it was a flashback to 2016 when our enthusiasm eroded into dismay and then despair. Last night we thought we were waking ...