While I am not certain the reported election results are honest, I suspect they are. With that statement, I apparently separate myself from most of this board still raging at the apparent defeat of their Patron Saint of Chaos.
I guess there is to be no healing among this crew, no happiness at the remarkable success of the GOP in defying the pollsters to earn gains in the House, the probable retention of the Senate, the rejection of tax hikes and hard-left initiatives even in places like California and Illinois, and the utter repudiation of Eric Holder's initiative to flip statehouses and state legislatures ahead of the 2020 census. Plus there's now a conservative majority in the Supreme Court.
We need to keep on fighting, but not in the flailing, nihilistic way that Trump has. The system works. Accept the results, be happy they weren't far worse as the "experts" predicted, and understand that the American Project has always been about accepting outcomes because the opportunity to change those outcomes will arise in the very next election cycle.
Dark times? Horse manure! Stop picking at scabs and let not your hearts be troubled.