All right, you guys.

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 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 ash can the American system of government, who doesn't

want a strongman 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

Americans, tens of millions of Americans say we should keep that system, which means time to fight for it.

And yes, Americans did fight for it by working on this election, by trying to get the

candidate elected who was both the Democrat and the small D Democrat. She didn't win. The

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