Dan Schnur

Even those who may have predicted Donald Trump's victory over Kamala Harris could not have forecast the size and scope of his triumph.

So let's take a look back at the events of November 5 and attempt to answer some of the questions that the Democrats are now facing:

Gaetz and Kennedy must go.

It was reported last week that when Israeli President Isaac Herzog made a congratulatory call to Trump after the election, he learned that Trump believed that most of the hostages were dead.

Perhaps the most audacious gamble of Donald Trump's audacious campaign was his outreach to young working-class men. For months before the election, Trump's team believed that these low-propensity voters—men of all racial and ethnic backgrounds who did not attend college and had struggled economically since the pandemic—could be convinced to turn out in large numbers for the former president. Because those without college degrees tend to pay less attention to politics, and because men vote in smaller numbers than their female counterparts, this was considered to be a tremendously risky bet.

The language of Middle Eastern politics can be frustrating, when one realizes, for example, that a ceasefire does not mean that the combatants have ceased firing at each other.

Pool/ABACA/Shutterstock From the Center This past weekend, when Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled his country and rebel forces

It's impossible to predict in these early and volatile days what sort of relationship will develop between the Jewish state and the multi-headed coalition that may now rule Syria.

Factcheck.org From the Center It's not often that Donald Trump and conventional wisdom are in agreement.

The original ethnic studies legislation that was debated in the State Capitol included numerous alarming examples of blatant antisemitism as well as a pronounced pro-Palestinian bias in its recommended materials.