1. Donald Trump has certainly done monumental damage to the American state, bringing levels of corruption and administrative malfeasance and downsizing that indicate a long-term hit to administrative capacity. Yet it won’t be until a successor from the opposition comes along that we’ll truly see what was done and what can be undone or remade. What we do know is that Trump 1 wasn’t able to stop the dramatic innovations of Joe Biden and that Biden’s innovations had virtually no effect on Trump 2.
2. Despite deep grumblings of an epically dissatisfied electorate, entire sectors of the political economy and social world remain on track to continue the path they’ve been on. Climate change is virtually off the table as a topic of policy and politics. Wealth inequality is worse today than it was ten years ago.

edit: I'm glad the Dems won, and apparently by a slightly larger margin than this quote suggests 🎉

Insider Democrats described the crisis as "fucking bliss"

That would be "immobilized".

This is by design