What we know already: Notes on election morning

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A country that can no longer deliberate about the future, drawing on the same well of facts, may be a country not long for liberty.
A terrifying number of Americans would prefer to see their republic wither than have to share it with Others.
Organizing our national conversation around polls that have no basis in reality is an extraordinarily wasteful use of mental space.
The fantasy that incremental change is most appealing to most people must be buried, and the prophets of real change must find the language and candidates to make the cause of social democracy less frightening to many Americans than it now is.