Zimet -- Midterms -- Well Done, America
Newly-elected Georgia governor Keisha Lance Bottoms Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images Well Done, America Abby Zimet Nov 05, 2026 Well that was a night. The glad spectacle of a newly sentient America tottering back to its capacious ideals was dubbed Orange Crush, Bluenami, a political earthquake , a wily tweak to Hegseth’s coveted public execution and “one of the great acts of defiance in American history.” It was both landslide too big to rig or stop and “extinction-level” rout. Above all, it was a thunderous rejection of fear, greed, lies, cruelty, war-mongering, authoritarianism . Tell your kids, urged Abdul El-Sayed, “The bad guys lost.” Who knew, pundits marveled: Turns out if you keep lying, stealing, abusing children , terrorizing, kidnapping, assaulting neighbors, shooting people in the street, making it impossible to get food, gas, health care or education while gloating about it and lining your fat pockets, everyone hates you. So it was that a “ Trump Reckoning ” and GOP “A...
