is a profound repudiation of Trumpism, helped along by Trump’s unerring ability to pick truly despicable candidates from Texas’s criminal Ken Paxton to Ohio’s creep Vivek Ramaswamy to South Carolina’s inane Darline Graham.

In that it’s the end of something, and when the celebration is over, it’ll be time to remember it’s the beginning of something, of rebuilding this country in all the ways it’s been broken and corrupted. So tonight there was a finish line, and tomorrow or the day after it’ll be our starting line.

- Rebecca Solnit, author and Guardian US columnist

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    5 days ago

    I think ablut 2/3 of the US leans Democrat, they just didn’t vote in 2024. This is what happens when they vote, it was more powerful than gerrymandering and voter suppression from the Republicans.