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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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