5 Reasons We’re Getting out of this Colossal Mess

The Night Was Dark and Full of Terrors, but it’s Almost Over

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Back in late September I wrote a Medium piece entitled 5 Reasons We’re Going to Get Out of this Colossal Mess. I wrote it because I wasn’t truly entirely sure we would. I was hoping for a landslide rejection of fascism and authoritarianism but bracing for the worst. As is the way with democracy I didn’t really get everything I wanted, but I got something that I and the vast majority of Americans can live and work with.

So let’s go back and take a look at how things played out.

1. Democrats remain angry, organized and united.

I was and continue to be annoyed with people talking smack about my girl Kamala Harris, but she has been embraced more and more by all Democrats and not just us super far lefties. I think Nancy Pelosi is finally getting the credit she deserves and the support she needs to get Americans back on our feet.

We did have some damaging setbacks even aside from losing Ruth Bader Ginsberg. For example Diane Feinstein will not be running for the top spot on the Judiciary Committee and a few saboteurs supposedly within the party have caused the majority in the House to shrink. The registration and work at the very end…