I think if anyone summed up the results the best so far, I'd have to give that to CNN contributor Scott Jennings.

Last night, Jennings sat on a panel with dumbfounded CNN talking heads who, judging by all the other clips, couldn't seem to wrap their heads around how Donald Trump, a man they convinced themselves was the epitome of evil and corruption, could have won the election. Jennings sat and thoughtfully explained it all masterfully as the rest of his panelists sat in silence, listening.

He began by calling this a "mandate," saying Trump won the national popular vote, and now he has to do what he said he was going to, including getting the economy back up and running, fixing the border, reducing crime, and creating a strong foreign policy.

But then Jennings dropped what is probably the greatest explanation of Trump's win I've heard, and likely will hear.

Jennings described the win as the "revenge" of the regular, anonymous American who "has been crushed, insulted, condescended to."

"They're not garbage, they're not Nazis, they're just regular people who get up and go to work every day, and try to make a better life for their kids, and they feel like they've just been told to shut up when they have complained about the things that have been hurting them in their own lives," he continued.

Next, Jennings came down on his own industry and, without saying it, the people he was currently surrounded by.

"I also feel like this election — as we sit here and pour over this tonight — is something of an indictment of the political information complex," said Jennings. "And the story that was portrayed was not true. We were told Puerto Rico was going to change the election. Liz Cheney, Nikki Haley voters, women lying to their husbands, before that, it was Tim Walz and the camo hats."

"Night after night after night, we were told all these things, and gimmicks," he continued, "were gonna somehow push Harris over the line, and we were ignoring the fundamentals. Inflation, people feeling they were barely able to tread water at best, that was the fundamentals of the election."

"And so, I think both parties should always look at the results of the election, and figure out what went right and what went wrong," said Jennings. "But I think for all of us who cover elections, and talk about elections, to do this on a day-to-day basis, we have to figure out how to understand, talk to, and listen to the half of the country that rose up tonight and said 'we've had enough.'"