The election results are not best explained by what most annoys you personally

You might not like, say, diverse casting in Star Wars movies. But that’s not the reason why Trump won. Also: No, Jon Stewart should not be president.

There’s a lesson that everyone across the political spectrum could stand to learn: The American political electorate is not you personally. It does not necessarily have the same obsessions and hangups that you do, and the things that most annoy you don’t necessarily move millions of votes. Even if — especially if — the election went your way.

Sure, the election result on Tuesday was interpreted by many as a repudiation of “wokeness,” whether that means liberal attitudes about criminal justice reform, blue state governance, or simply the Democratic president being a woman who remembers certain voters of other, unrelated women who they find annoying.

That’s how we get nonsense like this:

That’s a viral video of women who work for a cosmetics company in Australia doing a silly dance, that happened to go viral in July, a week or so before Kamala Harris became the Democratic candidate. What Harris has to do with this video, aside from “they’re all women who the worst people online dislike,” is unclear.

We also saw some other incredibly dumb explanations, of the “Trump won because of my personal pet peeves” variety. Here’s one viral thread that made a series of such dubious claims: