The election outcome was overall bad. But here are some of the election wins, as collected by Popular Information:
- "Voters protect abortion rights in seven states"
- "Voters in three red states guarantee paid sick leave; two boost minimum wage"
- "Three states vote to protect public school funding"
- "Florida voters reject school board politicization"
- "Florida attorney suspended by DeSantis wins reelection"
- "Voters elect first transgender member of Congress; send two Black women to the Senate"
— Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby, and Noel Sims, Through the darkness, some rays of light, Popular Information, Nov 7, 2024
"How will we conduct this resistance?
By organizing our communities. By fighting through the courts. By arguing our cause through the media."
— Robert Reich, The Resistance Starts Now: I still have faith in America, but we must mobilize to protect those at risk if Trump achieves his worst impulses. Nov 6, 2024
Reich continued:
"The work includes:
- Monitoring Trump and his government — despite the disinformation, propaganda, and lies we’ll be receiving — and disseminating the truth.
- Maintaining a watch over the people and institutions we value.
- Being ready to sound the alarm in our communities and networks when those people and institutions are under assault.
- Organizing and mobilizing nonviolent resistance to such assaults.
- Using civil disobedience wherever possible.
- Litigating through state and federal courts where possible.
- Speaking out against malicious lies like those that spread during the election by Elon Musk on his propaganda machine X and against vicious lies amplified on other MAGA mouthpieces.
- Using our economic muscle to boycott corporations that support Trump, Musk, and other centers of MAGA power."
Robert Reich, What will YOU do?: Acknowledging what we are up against, Nov 12, 2024
"American Democracy, as we know it, is likely over. That creates space for something new to emerge. I don’t have a crystal ball, so I can’t tell you exactly what will happen next. But I know what Trump and MAGA want America to become and that they’re empowered to make a lot of it happen. We keep competing by the rules even though the competition is rigged, and every cycle, our opponents find ways to rig the system even more in their favor. Personally, I’ve never been more open to new ideas and things I haven’t considered before. Not because I don’t think democracy can work but because I think achieving a true multiracial democracy will mean rebuilding from the ground up. I’d encourage us to be open to new ways of thinking and systems for change. Because the space for that now exists."
— Melissa Ryan, Clarity: I don’t have all the answers, but here’s where I’m at today. Ctrl Alt Right Delete, Nov 6, 2024
"Trump’s foreign policy worldview has been clear ever since he entered political life. He believes that the U.S.-created liberal international order has, over time, stacked the deck against the United States. To change that imbalance, Trump wants to restrict inward economic flows such as imports and immigrants (although he likes inward foreign direct investment). He wants allies to shoulder more of the burden for their own defense. And he believes that he can cut deals with autocrats, such as Russia’s Vladimir Putin or North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, that will reduce tensions in global trouble spots and allow the United States to focus inward.
Equally clear are Trump’s preferred means of getting what he wants in world politics. The former and future president is a strong believer in using coercion, such as economic sanctions, to pressure other actors. He also subscribes to the “madman theory,” in which he will threaten massive tariff increases or “fire and fury” against other countries in the firm belief that such threats will compel them into offering greater concessions than they otherwise would. At the same time, however, Trump also practices a transactional view of foreign policy, demonstrating a willingness during his first term to link disparate issues to secure economic concessions.
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During the [2024] campaign, Trump promised to bomb Mexico and to deport legal immigrants, called opposition politicians the “enemies from within,” and claimed that migrants were “poisoning the blood” of the country. Despite all this—or perhaps because of it—Trump won a popular majority. When the rest of the world looks at Trump, they will no longer see an aberrant exception to American exceptionalism; they will see what America stands for in the twenty-first century."
— Daniel W. Drezner, The End of American Exceptionalism: Trump’s Reelection Will Redefine U.S. Power, Foreign Affairs, November 12, 2024
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