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The New Yorker has a piece, "The Naivete Behind Post-Election Despair: What sort of reply can one offer to a person who has already decided that the world ends here?" newyorker.com/news/our-…
It points out what your piece points out -- that people who've been in the struggle for progressive change for a long time know that one election do…
The New Yorker has a piece, "The Naivete Behind Post-Election Despair: What sort of reply can one offer to a person who has already decided that the world ends here?" https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-naivete-behind-post-election-despair
It points out what your piece points out -- that people who've been in the struggle for progressive change for a long time know that one election does not necessarily mark real victory. The U.S. is not so fragile as to collapse or fully lose its guardrails after a couple of bad election outcomes.
After the Dems in 2008 thought they reached nirvana, even winning North Carolina for Obama; a woman, Bev Perdue, winning the governorship for the first time, and a Democratic Senate Seat for Kay Hagan; it was just two years later when the roof fell in, full Republican control of the state legislature, and the Congress, followed by the election of a Republican governor in NC, 2012.