American Horror Story’s new season opened with a similar scene, split between a freaked-out white liberal and an aroused MAGA-head. (The replacement episode was titled “Oh, Jeez.”) Saturday Night Live followed up with an election night sketch in which Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock attend a results party populated by overconfident white liberals, who are shocked at the revelation of an America their black friends already know exists. Garrison’s victory, including a stunned town viewing party. A planned South Park episode called “The Very First Gentleman” scheduled to be broadcast the following evening was quickly rewritten to account for Mr. Broad City’s “Witches”-in which Ilana looks back, realizing the extent of the trauma the date caused her-is the latest in this string of Election Day remembrances.
And yet popular culture has insisted on doing just that, returning to that evening again and again as if it might begin to explain everything that has happened since.įictional recreations began to appear almost immediately, spanning styles and genres, from horror to comedy to animation. 9-is burned so firmly into the collective consciousness that we hardly need to be reminded of it. The memory of election night 2016-watching the delegate count climb, slowly realizing what was happening, and finally seeing Donald Trump take the stage in the early hours of Nov.
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