The price of real political reconciliation is real repentence.

This country has made the mistake of attempting reconciliation without repentence. That what happened after Reconstruction collapsed in 1877.

We cannot afford to do that again.

And the problem is that we all know that there will be no repentence on the part of the people in power who led and enabled Trump, i.e. all Republican elected officials.

And there will be very little repentence on the part of the voters who supported them.

There will be little to no repentence because none of them think they did anything wrong.

They supported white supremacy and policies that have killed a quarter of a million of their fellow Americans in less than a year.

And they continue to support these things.

Let's, by all means, be willing to accept real change, if and when we see it, on the part of those responsible for the last for years.

Bit let's be very careful not to imagine it when it hasn't happened or act as if it has when it doesn't.

The fantasy of a Biden landslide was largely a fantasy about real change on the part of the voters who gave us the last four years. Tuesday night proved that was indeed a fantasy. Trump ran as Trump and his voters stayed with him...and grew in number from 2016.

We won. There are more of us than there are of them. But fascism has a huge base in this country and the fight against it is anything but over.