#Ian Bremmer, "America's faltering global role," TIME, November 16, 2020.

"The chances of Trump gracefully conceding an election loss was always vanishingly slim." "In 2020, there is no advanced industrial democracy more politically divided than the U.S. is today." "But the U.S. is increasingly moving way from being a true, functional representative democracy in the mold of Canada or Germany -- where the direct will of the people is reflected in government policy and their elected leaders, and is widely accepted by the losing side --."

#Brittiny Cooper, "Where the fault lies," TIME, November 16, 2020.

"Let's be clear: Donald Trump is the fault of white people. His rise is a direct result of white people's collective rejection of the progress that the Obama era signaled. And it is time to point fingers. It is time for the Americans who elected him the first time, handing him the the power of incumbency this time, to take responsibility."

"Based on the early numbers of this election, Black people could break records in places like Georgia and Texas. It is the energy that young Black voters are bringing  back to the South -- helped along by the vision of Stacey Abrams -- that might actually change the political landscape of the country." "White voters overperform in their support for white supremacist candidates, and white folks must grapple with the reasons as we determine what the story of the 21st century American politics will be." 

#David French, "Polarizations prevailed," TIME, November 16, 2020.

"As the Pew Research Center has noted, partisan antipathy is growing more intense, more personal. A supermajority of Democrats and Republicans view their opponents as 'more closed-minded.' A supermajority of Republicans view Democrats as 'more unpatriotic.' " 

#Molly Ball, "Long division," TIME, November 16, 2020.

"But even if he [Joe Biden] becomes the next President, it seems clear that he will be governing Trump's America: a nation unpersuaded by kumbaya calls for unity and compassion, determined instead to burrow even deeper into its hermetic bubbles. Win or lose, Trump engineered a lasting tectonic shift in the American political landscape, fomenting a level of anger, resentment and suspicions that will not be easy for his successor to surmount." 

#Jane Mayer, "Gaming the Endgame," The New Yorker, November 9, 2020.

"No American President has ever been charged with a criminal offense." "Trump has famously survived one impeachment, two divorces, six bankruptcies, twenty-six accusations of sexual misconduct, and an estimated four thousand lawsuits. Few people have evaded consequences more cunningly.' " "The Financial Times,' meanwhile, estimates that, in all, about nine hundred million dollars worth of Trump's real-estate debt will come due within the next four years." "It's the office of the Presidency that's keeping him from prison, and the poorhouse."

Timothy Snyder, a history professor at Yale, who studies authoritarianism, told Mayer: 'As the President ponders potential political defeat, he is "a terrified little boy." Martin Flaherty a founding director of the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham University, an authority on other countries' struggles with state crimes, believes that in America it would have a salutary effect to have a completely corrupt guy getting thrown in jail. He acknowledged that Trump might get pardoned, but said it was 'a big problem, since Watergate, as elites don't face accountability. It creates a culture of impunity that encourages the shamelessness of someone like Trump.'