Yesterday's Election

I saw this yard sign yesterday, while out doing errands.

WRT the Election results ("Angry Voters Usher in Beginning of the End to the Trump Era," New York Times), it wasn't because of this kind of thinking, but it'd be nice to think so.

-- Country First website

I'll take what I can get...

I'm not going to say this is a reset.  I will say though that if the Democratic Party in some of these surprising wins (Texas, Iowa, Kansas, some South Carolina, etc.) continues to organize and develop the "ground game" then some of these "miraculous reversals" can become more permanent.

In Salt Lake, I participate on the community whining site Nextdoor, and while the State is very Republican, Salt Lake City and to a lesser extent the County are strongly Democratic.

That means the County Attorney and Sheriff positions are Democrat and they've been in office a long time.  One strongly Republican participant on Nextdoor kept pushing their Republican opponents as an alternative, saying "it's time for a change."

New Yorker Magazine cartoon by Ben Chase.

I jokingly responded, "why is it in all those Republican House and Senate districts across the state, that have been electing Republicans all this time, they aren't saying 'it's time for change, why don't we vote Democratic for once'?"

Well, in this election it seems like many did, even in Utah, a bunch of hard core Republicans seem to be on their way to losing--some really bad ones, like the landlord lawyer writing tenant legislation ("As Utah continues counting votes, Democrats are on the path to flip seats in GOP-dominated Legislature," Salt Lake Tribune).  

We'll see if these trends hold up through the full ballot count--Utah is/was a leader in mail in voting, although they're dialing it back because of the Trump sycophants. A lot of early ballots in Utah are Republican.