I WITNESS: The people have voted

The midterm election of 2026 is over, and its over-ness brings at least some measure of relief: no more cascade of campaign solicitations to consign to the spam folder; no more vile Ramaswami attack ads savaging Amy Acton; no more ethically deficient Ken Paxton insulting James Talarico; no more Trump-on-the-stump nastiness and nitwittery; no more dangling of $5,000-per-person electoral bribes to induce us to vote for his preferred candidates; no more extolling of his preferred candidates’ muscular derrières; no more campaign lies. Now we can return to the ordinary, all-too-familiar criminality and callousness that have come to define Trump’s presidency, which is far from over. For the next two years, we will still have to contend with the egregious abnormalities of the most corrupt administration in our nation’s history. We’ve returned to the status quo… ish, because the status quo under Donald Trump retains all of the hallmarks of an uncontrolled dumpster fire.

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