Rebecca Solnit saw what was happening from the moment Trump II began. Let's hope Democrats aren't back to being willfully blind.

That Was Glorious and Amazing and Both an End and a Beginning:

Last night, Raskin posted a quote from Tom Paine: "Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered, but we have this consolation: The more difficult the struggle, the more glorious in the end will be our victory." We have the victory over our age's Confederacy– that's an end of sorts– but now comes the Third Reconstruction* we must begin. This is why I've been going on about centrists and moderates: we cannot go back to the way things were. The way things were let the hideous destructiveness of the Trump era happen, let Trump win a first term thanks to big tech propaganda, unlimited corporate and billionaire spending, foreign influence, and the anti-democracy of the electoral college, let him go back to the White House thanks to the supreme corruption of the Supreme Court which protected him from the consequences of his crimes again and again. We must go forward to change our laws and systems and maybe our Constitution to make a more perfect union, one that is ready to defend democracy and the rule of law and meet the rising electorate, the electorate that gave us last night's champions and victories. There is a lot to be done, but that is not reason not to celebrate that yesterday we reached the reward of a lot that was done to build this glorious, this astonishing, this earthquake, this tsunami, this watershed of a victory.

I've wondered for a while if the future of the Republican Party is no future: it has utterly warped and compromised itself to try to ride Donald Trump's coattails to victory and it will be glued to them as he stumbles into obsolescence. The party stands for nothing but hate, cruelty, and corruption; it has driven out every member with integrity (I love seeing Kentucky Republican Congressman Thomas Massie fuck shit up on his way out – he's going to move next week on impeaching Secretary of Playing War Hegseth and was a key force in releasing (some of) the Epstein files, which is why Trump pushed him out; Massie is not very lame as ducks go, but Trump is just waddling and quacking, I dunno, into the unreflective reflecting pool). They're transactional, not loyal, and Vance is already blaming Trump's Iraq War for the defeat, which is just a nice reminder that Vance will never take responsibility for anything and learned nothing useful last night, but Trump is a stain they can't wash off, and the voters repudiated the cruelty, corruption, grossness, incompetence, and dishonesty Vance embodies and thus will never acknowledge). One of our jobs going forward, sorry centrists, is to reiterate every time it's relevant who wrecked the economy, the environment, the functioning federal government, food safety, education, international relations, and so much more. Memory is a superpower here.