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3/ It’s quite striking that in seven out of ten states, abortion protection measures won with strong popular support. Even in Florida, 57% of voters backed the measure (but it failed to reach the 60% threshold required for adoption). It’s quite telling that, when considered in isolation, the key point of Harris’s campaign was widely supported, but the overall project of the continuation of the liberal order was rejected.

The left has been completely unprepared for this collapse. Fifty years of neoliberalism have undermined ideas and practices of solidarity and replaced them with a cynical, game-theory view of social interaction as endless competition in zero-sum games. On what new basis solidarity could be rebuilt is entirely unclear to me.

We are off the charts now, and many vulnerable people will suffer. There is a tidal wave of ugliness coming. While liberal wars might be pursued less vigorously now that the Cheneys are in the wilderness for good, neocolonial exploitation will not, creating its own incentives for war. Musk made this very clear in relation to the need to have access to cheap lithium.

But there is no reason to be nostalgic. It’s precisely the charts we had that created the mess we are in.