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Carolyn Phipps's avatar

Yes, relief because now we have clarity. "The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable." The truth has been making me miserable for the better part of a decade, but now I finally feel free. Let there be clarity, ruat caelum!

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Peter Toensing's avatar

I share this reaction — relatively rapid movement through the shock, anger, sadness and now, hopefully, developing a plan for an adaptive response. The Bulwark community helps a lot!

The scale and clarity of the Republican victory here can be seen as a clarifying moment, an opportunity to do some fearless soul-searching and an opportunity to get really clear on what the guiding principles are. I frankly hope that the centrism which the Harris campaign embraced through alliances with Liz Cheney and others becomes a significant part of forming a new pro-democracy coalition.

I think that Bill’s points on forming a strategy to oppose Trumpism, a strategy that *isn’t* about claiming victim-hood and *is* about laying out a healthier, positive, and attractive alternative vision for the future, are spot on.

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