On Monday, The Atlantic published an article about how elite coastal candidates Democrats A, B, and C can avoid turning into neurotic weirdos if they lose to Republican fascist X. One of the articles published in the magazine for many years was published. , Y or Z.

Atlantic writer Mark Leibovich brilliantly suggestamong other things, eat food, take walks, turn off notifications on your phone, surrender to the unknown, and be humble to avoid election anxiety.

Yes, the Atlantic writer is telling us to be humble. Just like that, he touted this election as the most important event in American history, saying that if his beloved candidate, Kamala Harris, loses to the evil dictator Donald Trump, democracy will be destroyed. It claims that doctrine will end. What a humble, thoughtful, nuanced depiction of the stakes of this election. Very modest! (Click here to sign up for Mr. Wright’s weekly newsletter)

When a member of an established media like Leibovitch declares that we should be humble and embrace the unknown surrounding such a difficult race, an OnlyFans prostitute is seen publicly harassing an elderly Catholic nun. So you’re telling me to dress more modestly, or vice versa, and I feel like I’m 85 years old. A 0-year-old lifelong nun tells Prost on OnlyFans after midnight how to seduce men.

I also find it amusing that people from the intellectual class write these kinds of articles, which ooze childish naivety and are thoughtless enough to be embarrassing to their fellow elites. Mr. Leibovitch says he has searched for “wisdom” by rereading old New Yorker interviews and calling friends in the political class, including commentator James Carville.

I’ve been gathering wisdom these past few days. I reflected on some of the comforts I found helpful after the 2016 earthquake. “This is not the apocalypse,” then-President Barack Obama said in a post-election interview with David Remnick. of new yorker. “I don’t believe in anything apocalyptic, until the apocalypse comes. I don’t think anything is the end of the world until the end of the world.” To be sure, Donald Trump’s presidency was bad, perhaps due to fear. It was worse than it had been. But I interpreted Obama’s point to mean that prolonged grief is counterproductive and a form of self-inflicted paralysis.

We all know that the best sources of wisdom are political operatives who spread propaganda for a living, and shallow, vain, and deceived public figures like Barack Obama.

I’m not going to pull a Leibovich here and rattle off the best way to deal with election anxiety. If anything, I would probably do the opposite of what he suggested. It doesn’t actually do anything. I’ll have a beer, I guess. Moments like this humble me, not to Atlantic staff writers, but to history and the forces beyond our control that shape our lives, for better or worse. It is what it is.