At the Atlantic, Russell Burman details this reasoning in his new article “Maybe Democrats Didn’t Do So Badly After All ”: Now a clearer picture of the election has emerged, complicating the debate over whether Democrats need to reinvent themselves—and whether voters really abandoned them at all.

CNN, MSNBC and members of the Democratic Party are now suggesting that Elon Musk is coalescing power and pulling the strings for President-elect Trump.