As the last votes get counted, we’re starting to see the final, remarkable shape of our blue tsunami.
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Next year, it looks like America will have 56 Democratic senators, around 260 House members, and the governorships of 13 of the 14 largest states.
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About 60 percent of Americans will be represented in the House by a Democrat, and about 70 percent will have a Democratic governor.
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Oh, and Laura Loomer’s podcast is going on hiatus, and Elon just discontinued the Cybertruck.
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It Is Hereby Ordered...
by William Kristol
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Writing here on Wednesday morning, I remarked that “surely we’re entitled now to a day not of thinking or worrying or arguing, but of celebrating.
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Then, thinking of all the work that does lie ahead, I added: “But only one day!”
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I now see that we deserve more than one day of celebration.
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We’ll have to get back to work soon enough.
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But how often do we get to celebrate something like what the American people accomplished on Tuesday?
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The breadth and depth of the popular repudiation of Trump and Trumpism deserves more than a mere 24 hours of joyful recognition.
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breadth → deserve → recognition
It feels as if, from the Mississippi Delta to the Alaskan tundra, from the Outer Banks to the Great Plains, a kind of iron curtain has been lifted from across our continent.
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kind → feel → continent
A feeling of dread has given way to a sense of possibility.
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You have my permission.
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Indeed, President Trump has inspired me to make that permission official.
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Yesterday, in one of his first acts since the election, President Trump issued an executive order designating the Oval Office a “national landmark” to prevent a future president from altering it.
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He said he wanted to “make it impossible for anybody to ever destroy this incredible space.”
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He wants his Saddam-inflected Cheesecake Factory–style Oval Office to be preserved intact for posterity.
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The order can and will of course be rescinded by the next president.
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But it made me think.
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If President Trump can issue meaningless executive orders, so can I.
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So:
Now, therefore, I, William Kristol, co-author of Morning Shots, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Bylaws of The Bulwark, do hereby extend our period of National Celebration through the end of the weekend.
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So that’s done.
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I can’t help but mention one other matter: Soon after Donald Trump issued his ridiculous executive order, Pete Hegseth gifted us with a video—lest we forget, even for a minute, his noxious presence at the Pentagon.
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The commentator Heather Delaney Reese gives a good account of it here.
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She begins,
After renewed calls for his impeachment and removal, this afternoon, Donald Trump’s handpicked Secretary of “War,” Pete Hegseth, with his greasy hair slicked back and an American flag handkerchief poking out of his pocket, released a video of himself that marked an all-new low point . . .
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It’s an embarrassment to our military and our nation.
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But Hegseth did have a purpose: to convince President Trump not to toss him overboard.
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So he begins by talking about the inspiring moment he first walked up to “President Trump’s War Department.”
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And then he links the motion to impeach him, which is due to come to the floor when Congress returns next week, to the earlier impeachments of his leader and master.
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“Just like they tried against President Trump, twice . . . Didn’t work against President Trump, and it won’t work with me.”
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This did make me think: What would be more fitting as a first post-election act by the Congress of the United States than the impeachment of Pete Hegseth?
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But in a way that would make it an even more powerful statement.
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Since it would require some Republican defections to pass, it would show that even some functionaries of the old order realize that we need to begin to clean up the mess, and turn the page and move on to a new order.
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But here I’ve drifted into thinking and arguing about the future—which I said we should put off for a few more days.
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Even Ron DeSantis, Mr. Anti-Woke himself, thinks they were laying it on too thick.
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It alienated a lot of people, rightfully so,” DeSantis said in remarks on Wednesday.
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And Republicans, it seemed like, with some of the ads I was seeing, with how much money they were spending, they were really fighting yesterday’s battle.
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Actually, Tuesday’s results had some interesting cross-signals for GOP culture warriors.
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On the one hand, DeSantis is correct: Republicans’ attempt to scare voters with trans panic against candidates like James Talarico couldn’t have fallen flatter.
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