Maybe People Elect Who They Want

     There will be fuming over the results of today's elections.  There always is.  National elections can be confounding -- the popular vote is often close, the Electoral College tends to amplify the margin of victory, and some bickering is inevitable.

     But regional elections, even statewide elections?  Look, the people of AOC and MTG's House districts knew what they were getting when they voted.  In New York City, the three frontrunners in the Mayor''s race had clear platforms and didn't do much hedging.  Nobody walked into a voting booth and rolled a three-sided dice.  Gubernatorial candidates in Virginia and New Jersey were similarly forthright, and here's the thing: if the individual states are indeed "50 experiments in democracy," if the people of cities get to pick their own Mayors and so on, you're going to get an assorted collection.  Virginia isn't Ohio.  NYC isn't Dallas.  Get 'em into office and see what they do.

     Indiana's Micah Beckwith certainly lost no time showing who he is after Election Day.  Cruising into office on Governor Mike Braun's coattails, I think Hoosiers hoped for a safe, pro-business Republican* in the hot seat and didn't pay much attention to the malicious imp riding shotgun alongside him.  Said imp's latest has been to chortle that the interruption in SNAP benefits is "a great opportunity for the church."  --Most candidates come with a pretty clear label, but you can't be sure until you uncork 'em and get a good whiff.

     If people elected skunks or roses Tuesday, it'll be obvious soon enough.  Let's see how the latest crop does before freaking out.
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* Oh, well.  Like a lot of GOP Governors, he's trying to be a mini-Trump.  And like most of them, the act's not ready for Broadway.