This is maybe the coin-flippingest coin-flip American presidential election ever — no matter how unbelievable that still sounds, nine years into this.

While you can look at any social app and find all the doom and/or cope you like, nobody knows how this is gonna go. I have a guess, and I feel fairly confident about it, but that’s not worth much to anybody.

In the meantime, here’s a version of what I plan to tell my kid, who wisely has never read any of my posts, meaning there’s no risk of spoiler...