Special Edition: Election Takeaways
I wasn’t planning on writing a newsletter this week, and there won’t be one on Sunday. But given how this election has played out so far and how relevant so much of what we’ve talked about here for the past couple of years has turned out to be, I wanted to share some initial takeaways. Here’s what you need to know.
Most Americans don’t want our country to become a fascist hellscape. I have always believed this and couldn’t do this work if I didn’t. But last night, we got even more confirmation. It’s the third election in a row where voters have soundly rejected Trump, MAGA, and everything their white supremacist, fascist, misogynist, hateful movement stands for.
We obviously don’t know the full results, but we do know that voters turned out to vote against MAGA in droves. And the deck was stacked against us. MAGA has done everything in its power to disenfranchise voters with gerrymandering, voter suppression laws, threats of violence, targeted harassment of election officials and volunteers, false claims of voter fraud, and voter intimidation. That’s not even getting into the historical realities of how most midterm elections go. They can’t win a free and fair election, and they know it. Had we actually had a free and fair election in every race, the wins would be even larger.
