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The midterm election is finally here. Many folks will have voted early, as we did two weeks ago, hand delivering to the drop box, ensuring minimal interference from the president. The full results won’t be known for some time after the election. Until then, we wait.
While nobody can assure the outcome, I know what I want to have happen: total repudiation of everything the GOP currently seems to stand for. This president is a corrupt, crude, and incompetent bully, the worst in American history. He has enriched himself, while impoverishing all Americans as his random tariffs raise domestic costs. His foolish war of choice has impacted the entire planet. He has removed competent people throughout the government, replaced them with loyalist buffoons.
This is the culmination of a Republican long game, which has been building for decades. A marking point was the decision by the Republicans on the Supreme Court to give the 2000 election to Bush the Younger. The Court then allowed for unlimited cash in the election cycle, and gutted the Voting Rights Act, disenfranchising millions of voters. In a final mockery of democracy, the Court gave the president full imm...