Slate takes final stock of just how Not Normal this election was. A little over a year ago, when this election cycle was just cranking up, I wrote an essay in Slate about how nothing about the 2024 presidential election would be normal. Not to brag, but—I was totally right! A twice-impeached former president in the midst of multiple criminal trials, fresh off an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol that left several dead, easily carried the Republican primary. The Democratic incumbent seemed to