Democracy gets another chance

A meme appeared on Facebook after the election showing Obi-Wan Kenobi from “Star Wars” saying, “I felt a great disturbance in the Force… As though a gilded ballroom were being slowly, but firmly, shoved up someone’s ass.” That about sums it up. A political earthquake has occurred in which the MAGA coalition broke apart and crashed from its own hubris. The man who called affordability a hoax, started wars while demanding a Nobel Peace prize, alienated our allies while cozying up to murderous dictators, and made self-enrichment one of his main activities, behaved as if he were testing his followers to see what their limit was. At last he found it. Strong, bold Democratic candidates and effective organizing took advantage of voter disaffection. Black voters fed up with Trump’s lies and insults, turned out in large numbers. Republican gerrymandering efforts backfired spectacularly, as did the effort to make everything about scary trans people.

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