A rally so horrible it made the Trump campaign apologize. Do you know what happened?

So, what was that four-year slog of insults, disinformation, infighting, and demagoguery all about? The future of the free world? Inflation? Immigration? Childless cat ladies? Staying out of jail? Maybe the real point of the U.S. presidential election was the quintillion pieces of useless information we absorbed along the way, whether we wanted to or not. As we prepare to spend the next week (or month, or four years) on tenterhooks, why not take a moment to exhale and empty your brain of all that?