Man, I don't know if this whole reconstituted America thing is going to work out. We defeated Trump, Biden got a greater percentage of the vote against an incumbent than any challenger since 1932. We won the presidency but Trump got 73M votes. We did not defeat trumpism. We lost seats in the Senate and in the House. That is a mandate for stalemate. Which is better than Trump winning, as my friend said.

There is now a robust, immense, durable opposition to democratic process that so far, only eleven days, includes most Republican members of Congress, that will not concede defeat in a democratic election. I don't see how you can democratically govern a country with that sizable and intransigent a non-democratic opposition. The opposition probably will not be permanent, what is in life except death?, but it may be enduring enough to result in death, which is permanent enough isn't it?

All but a tiny portion of the 73M will obey lawfully constituted authority. But federal elected Republicans can still rig the system by refusing to cooperate with Biden, by not filling federal judgeships and Supreme Court vacancies as they did under Obama, by refusing to pass legislation, by in every way they can short of coup d'é·tat not recognizing Biden as president. Maybe congressional Republicans will relent with time, I just don't know.

I have written previously that I thought the old U.S.A. ceased to exist on 11/8/16, that we now had America 2.0.