She is an idea, a world-historical heroine, light itself.

I want to reverse the usual schedule of things, then. We don't have to wait until she dies to act. Kamala Harris' name belongs on ships, and airports, and tattoos. She deserves straight-up hagiographies and a sold-out Broadway show called COCONUT. Yes, this cultural canonization is going to come after the chronic, constant, nonstop "On the other hand" sexist hedging around her legacy.

But such is the courage of Kamala Harris and her supporters; we reverse patriarchal orders. Maybe she is more than a president. Maybe she is an idea, a world-historical heroine, light itself. The presidency is too small for her. She belongs to a much more elite class of Americans, the more-than-presidents. Neil Armstrong, Martin Luther King Jr., Alexander Fucking Hamilton.

Kamala Harris did everything right in this campaign, and she lost more votes than her opponent did. She won. She cannot be faulted, criticized, or analyzed for even one more second. Instead, she will be decorated as an epochal heroine far too extraordinary to be contained by the mere White House. Let that revolting president-elect be Millard Fillmore or Herbert Hoover or whatever. Kamala is Athena.