Obama Wins Four More Years (303 - 206)

[monk222]

NEW YORK -- President Barack Obama did not just win reelection tonight. His victory signaled the irreversible triumph of a new, 21st-century America: multiracial, multi-ethnic, global in outlook and moving beyond centuries of racial, sexual, marital and religious tradition.

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The Republican Party, by contrast, has been reduced to a rump parliament of Caucasian traditionalism: white, married, church-going -- to oversimplify only slightly. "It's a catastrophe," said GOP strategist Steve Schmidt. "This is, this will have to be, the last time that the Republican Party tries to win this way."

-- Howard Fineman

I went to bed early last night. What happened?

The quote above is obviously the buoyant take on events, but let's ride on that high. I am afraid, though, that the Republicans are not going to take Steve Schmidt's lesson from their debacle, but will only rail against the supposedly liberal media all the harder, as well as fulminate against the bottom 47%. I believe they have seen the light, and it is a strange admixture of Jesus and Ayn Rand and white supremacy, and they probably were not converted by the trauma of losing so big even as they thought they had won it, with some, including even-temepered George Will, believing that Romney was going to win in a landslide.

I feel good about Obama's victory, but I do not expect the future to be easier going than the past has been. I am pretty sure that we are still a country divided, and that the right-wing Red Staters are only more angry and disturbed. I hope they upgrade Obama's security.