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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[–] 38 points 1 week ago (1 child)

The initial reactions here seem to be focused on dismissing democrats and they have certainly deserved the criticism, but imo these results are also a sign that there is still hope and democracy is not yet lost, because for all their collective flaws, the democrat party is nothing like the actual threat, which is the GOP. I think people can allow themselves the reprieve from the torrent of bad news and doom, and find their country is still theirs to fight for. People have been jaded at the democrats, but they are still and by far the sane alternative in US politics. Let's just hope they get that their progressive wings is something to bank on, and addressing the common people's struggle is a better platform than engaging in culture wars, electorally.

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