News Summary

• Republicans have taken a very narrow election victory and launched a winner-takes-everything regime that resembles in spirit the Sack of Rome.
• To an ever-increasing extent, there’s no “normalcy’ that can be restored and no appetite for it among Democrats even if it were practicable.
• Democrats are instantly plotting retaliation in California and other states they control, even as they imagine the horrors of a continued GOP Congress beyond 2026.
• The odds are very high that the next Democratic presidency will avail itself of the new executive powers Trump-friendly federal courts have authorized.