Trump is America’s choice. It wasn’t a fluke. It’s also clearly the case that voters were wildly dissatisfied with Biden’s presidency

Frida Ghitis : In the final weeks of the campaign it was hard not to interpret the images of Donald Trump’s turgid, endless rallies as proof of collective exhaustion on the part of his party.

She says the magnetism of this strange and sui generis performer was never fully absent in these speeches, but it did feel like the light had dimmed.

Ghitis says Biden gave Trump an opening to be a less engaging version of himself and still dominate.

Frida Ghitis : In every respect, what happened last night is far worse than what happened in 2016 .

She says the people in Trump ’s orbit are meaningfully more sadistic than the people who were there last time.

Ghitis wonders if past eight years have been so disillusioning, so hardening, that the intensity of that earlier shock is simply no longer available.

There is much we still don’t know about what happened, and about what the next few months and years hold.

Is this a new, definitive realignment, or is Trump unique? How will the Democrats respond to the decisive failure of its much-vaunted suburban coalition, and how will we respond?.