Regardless of who wins the president, Republicans are really the ones coming out on top. They made huge gains in the House and are keeping the Senate, with SCOTUS being conservative likely for the next 20-30 years at minimum. The polls and media have been proven completely and utterly useless, and cannot be used as a voter intimidation tactic any more.
The southern strategy is dead after nearly 60 years and Trump killed it. He brought in more minority support than any republican in recent history. Trump has completely ideologically shifted the conservative party and they will need to hold his platform to maintain power, which they know. No more useless wars, no more racist policies, no more selling out American workers to foreign interests. Gone are the days of the Ohio-Florida swing elections, welcome are the days of the Michigan-Wisconsin-Arizona swing elections.
If it wasn't for the mail in voting, the historic voter turnout, and the virus, the election would have easily been a Trump landslide. Just as the tea party gave way to Trump, Trump will give way to the next generation of conservatives. Walkaway is real and it is only going to get worse for the democrats as their (presumably) elected buffoon is going to make even more of an ass out of their party than 4 years of Russiagate ever could. With candidates like John James doing as well as they did, the conservative voter base will only grow more diverse as identity politics will be ripped from the cold, corporate hands of the Democratic Party.
Conservative control of congress is only going to grow in 2022 as the expected conservative backlash shows up in the polls. If Biden is going to get anything done at all it will need to be in his first two yearsi After that, he will be a lame duck if he isn't already one as soon as he swears in. In 2024 Biden won't be fit to run, he's simply too old. He will either step down, sending the democrats scrambling to find the next person to run, or he will attempt to run again and give the republicans a near sure-fire victory at replacing him with their next big guy. (Ted Cruz? Ben Carson? Kanye West??? Some G A M E R G A T E P O L I T I C I A N ???? Who knows...) That is, if Trump swallows his pride and steps down, allowing the next generation to play.
Even the easiest issues that democrats hold over people's heads are slipping out of their hands. 3 states legalized marijuana and Joe Biden is against it. The dumb stoner vote is completely gone in Arizona and Michigan, and will only continue shrinking as more states legalize. Race issues like prison reform and police reform have been handed over to the republicans. Trump signed the first step act, correcting the racist fuck-up that Biden penned in the first place in the 90s. Democrats have one of the most heavy-handed prosecutors in the county a heartbeat away from the presidency.
The far left might be the biggest losers of all this election. Joe Biden is so moderate that he legit could have run as a Republican if it wasn't for his name. Any hope the far left had for leftism being implemented on the federal level is gone for the next decade. Joe Biden will do nothing for their agenda, and a Republican will likely sweep him out of office in 2024. The democrats have been moving away from class-based politics, and the conservatives have been lifting the mantle. The only ghost of a hope they have is Kamala should the 25th amendment be invoked. However, if this DOES happen, she will be completely stonewalled by the conservatives and cause an even bigger red wave as the conservatives get riled up to hell and back as they feel duped and cheated.
As a libertarian-conservative, it would have been nice to see Trump win. However, I am happy with the results overall, and think that this election outlined a bright future for the republican party. I can only hope that Joe will not completely lose it in his time in office, as a Harris presidency is the only thing that truly scares me about this election.