All right, you guys, we were made for this. We were made for this. This is what we trained for.

Have you taken your deep breaths? Have you, in fact, hydrated? Have you had any sleep? I know you didn't.

We didn't either. But, you know, we now have got stuff to do. We really were in some important ways as Americans made for this.

If this was an election that was not just a choice between two candidates,

but it was a choice between keeping the American system of government or trading it in for a

strongman authoritarian system instead, then the decisive result of this election gives us not just an answer to the

question as to what Americans want to do along those lines. It also gives us a really big to-do

list as Americans. If you are an American citizen who does not want to aschcan the American

system of government, who doesn't want a strong man

authoritarian system, where the whole government is one guy and everything else just exists to serve

him. If that is not the kind of country that you want, then yesterday's election means you

have more to do for your country than you have ever done before. Because now is when the rubber really hits the road, right?

We don't just flip a switch and the American system of government is gone.

Democracy is gone. It doesn't work like that.

I mean, not to be boring here for a second, but just getting very real,

we now are just another one in the list of countries

that has decided to, you know, hey, what the heck? Let's try the strongman thing. Let's let democracy

go. Let's put in an all-powerful guy instead, see how it goes. There are many more countries in the world

governed by that kind of a system than there are governed by ours. We are the only 248-year-old

multiracial, pluralistic democracy in the world. And shall we keep it? A lot of our fellow Americans

say we shouldn't. Now we know. Now we know for sure. But a lot of our fellow Americans say we shouldn't. Now we know.

Now we know for sure.

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