
Early Wednesday morning, the outcome dreaded by Democrats turned into a reality: Donald Trump has been elected the 47th president of the United States. The Associated Press made the call after Trump's win in the state of Wisconsin; Trump has passed 270 electoral votes, with more to follow.
This crushing defeat for Vice President Kamala Harris and her party also includes a Republican majority in the U.S. Senate and possible control of all three branches of government during the first two years of Trump’s upcoming term. While the Democrats' immediate task will be figuring out what went wrong, an early answer would be damn near everything.