The blue tsunami last Tuesday rinsed the country of its worse impulses. At least for the time being.
Its coast-to-coast breadth showed that the United States is not, in its essence, a Trumpist nation. Its depth, penetrating well into the American South and
elevating so many African Americans to high office at both the state and federal levels of government, demonstrated that we are not an endemically racist nation. Along related lines, its extraordinary diversity in elected officials reveals that we are not fundamentally a misogynistic nor an unconstitutionally Christian country.
We are, at heart, a more hopeful and much less hateful and fearful nation than the President, his Administration and the Republican Party have all tried to engineer us to be. Continue reading “After le déluge, what?”
