Last week, I wrote here in hope rather than confidence that the American people would seize their last chance to confound Donald Trump and his Maga cult and to reassert the democratic values of the American Revolution embodied in the US constitution.

My hopes were far more than exceeded by the results. They are an emphatic rejection of the dangerous and deceitful strategies deployed by Trump to pervert the democratic system.

We should not forget his unsuccessful efforts to propagate wholesale gerrymandering by red states. Nor should we forget his unsuccessful attempts to limit postal voting and to demand proof of citizenship when registering to vote.

On top of that came his nauseating insult to the American people in the dodgy pledge of a $5,000 cheque to every adult citizen in the event of a Republican majority in both houses.

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