Washington had a spring in its step on Wednesday, November 4, the day after the election. Democrats had swept across the nation, from sea to shining sea, liberating territory that had long suffered under Republican rule.
Texas!
Kansas!
Mississippi!
All freed by a new generation of Democrats in a burst of millennial optimism. Following the example of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, these were media-savvy, punch-back politicians with a hopeful, populist vision for the future.
I had spent previous, calamitous elections (2016, 2024) drunk but this time, I was too nervous to imbibe. Because if democracy lost, what then? Where would I go? No tempting of fate at a victory party.
Instead, I white-knuckled it at home, raw-dogging the results, expecting disappointment and wondering how this country would survive resurgent fascism.
Instead, it was all over by eight o’clock. Astonishing results poured in as the Democrats won all the swing states and so much more, including control of the House and Senate. The margin in the Senate is so big that it renders John Fetterman (Vichy-PA) completely irrelevant.
Americans dumped some of the worst people on the planet, like Roger Marshall, the Kansas Senator who jailed his patients for failing to pay and Vivek Ramaswamy, who used a woman’s childhood trauma for a campaign ad.
Even better: Elon Musk spent $500 million (!) on the election only to see Texas go blue! Buc-cee’s will now be halal and shawarma law will be mandatory in the Lone Star State.
The morning after the election, I went to Lafayette Park. Well, the nub of it that’s not enclosed by a security fence. There I found Nadine Seiler aka Team Algae, the demonstrator who gets so much media with her huge banners that she got an angry shoutout from President Dementia.
She was delighted; I was too and as we talked, runners and tourists kept stopping by to take photos with her sign.
Even the trees are celebrating – we’re having some of the best fall colors in years.
The Chuds Go Silent
I expected more of an outcry from the chuds, the die-hard MAGA cultists that have popped up in DC in various groups including the Proud Boys, 1776 Restoration Movement and Freedom Corner.
But they were mostly silent. And not just because so many of them have been sent back to jail for new crimes after Trump’s pardons.
In fact, they were already disaffected and disappointed before the election. Trump had two years and he didn’t pay the J6ers nor did he honor their supporters with a White House visit. Or medals! They really believed that.
Known antifa members including Nadine and Red Bike Guy were not locked up.
The clones that supposedly populate the government were not unmasked. There were no military tribunals and mass executions. JFK Jr did not reveal himself in a dramatic Oval Office address.
They trusted the plan but the storm did not come. “Where we go one, we go all” led to massive defeat.
The chuds issued some half-hearted cries of voter fraud but this was an election result that was too big and too national to doubt.
One of them ranted from his storage unit that, “This will be the gayest Congress in history!”
MAGA is Dead
After the 2024 election of Donald Trump, I said, “We all lost. MAGA just hasn’t realized it yet.”
In 2026, I watched the livestreamers who did the trucker convoys during the Biden eraa complain that gas is now too expensive to go anywhere. Also, they can’t find healthcare or afford meat.
But they never make the connection between Trump’s war and their financial ruin. So close to getting it but they never will for doing so would force them to admit that they were wrong.
Instead, they drift away. No longer online, swearing off social media, disappeared.
This is how cults end, not with Jonestown with a slow fade into history, leaving behind nothing but debt and broken people.
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