All of capital will put on its liberal mask, and claim it is glad to be done with that man. The rich and the powerful will, for a few short weeks, pretend to rejoice with “normal folk” in their relief. But we should never stop asking, “in whose interests did he govern?” There are some who will say he governed only out of self interest, that a single ego ruled the world, and that nobody else was responsible. But the rich and the powerful, those who profiteered, those who made careers in the opinion of opposition when not opinion but force was needed, those who benefitted from the murder of black people, and those who benefitted from the scandal of the murder of black people – they will soon all go silent. Breathe your sighs of relief all you like; Trump ruled, and was allowed to rule, because autocracy and protectionism, race war and violent policing, anti-immigrant sentiment and sinophobia, the myth of profitable all-American production was of benefit to the most wealthy and powerful strata of society. He was allowed to rule because flirtations with fascism by those who call themselves liberal are a perennial aspect of the ideology of Coastal neo-liberalism, while they blame its violent excrescences, its paranoia, and its racism on those who it dupes with the economic promises of manufacture and the social promises of ethnonationalism. Things might change a little: Biden and Harris will probably be more friendly to the new monopolists, the centibillionaires, while appeasing the mere billionaires with scavenging from whatever new war in the Middle East they design. It is all very bleak.