Last week was a single, very long day. One of my jobs is trying to make sense of American culture, and you may have noticed that on Tuesday 3 November the US had an election; my brain has spun itself flat, like a pizza, trying to process everything. Now it’s just sticky bits of dough everywhere.
After three endless days and sleepless nights glued to CNN, I finally gave in on Friday night, joking at 1am on Twitter that I was going to bed, so everyone could thank me when the election was called at 1.05am. CNN’s Jim Acosta, one of the American reporters who has challenged Donald Trump most forcefully over the past four years, liked my tweet, which was easily the highlight of the week – that is, until Joe Biden and Kamala Harris officially won.
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