Ding, Dong, the Witch Still Leads the Polls

"We got him!" cheered protesters, headlines. What did they get?

The Guardian coverage of Donald Trump’s hush-money guilty verdict read:

“We got him ... Hopefully this will be the beginning of the end of this grifter ... This is the beginning of the end, folks,” the man, who identified himself as Bill Christeson, told reporters.

Another man waved a yellow sign that read: “God, strike Trump dead. Judge, free him.”

The end? Of what, the election? Isn’t Trump still winning that, to the point of inspiring waves of panic editorials, and likely to gain more now? With the verdict, America continued down the path of separate realities: