Is this the Bargaining or Denial stage?

Compared with incumbent governments elsewhere in the world, Democrats' losses were modest.

That's post-election copium. That was hardly mentioned at all before the election. And why would it be? The US never compares itself seriously to other countries.

And in the House, they gained a seat, leaving the GOP with the second-smallest majority in history.

Emphasis his.

"There could have been a red wave in the states, and there wasn't," Heather Williams, the president of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, told me. "I genuinely see this election as defying odds."

Defying the odds? Is that a punchline?

[Senator Chris Murphy] believes that Democrats should respond by embracing economic populism and welcoming people who have conservative views on cultural issues such as guns, immigration, and the environment. Some of the party's successes from last month agree with him.

Ah, lurch more to the right!

lmao I clicked the thumbnail assuming this was c/badposting and it was an image post. Imagine my delight and amusement when it ended up being an actual article in the atlantic. I aint reading that cope tho sry.

Vote on the new emoji

https://archive.ph/4Ol8X

for the paywall

Liberals see the glass as an isolated moment in time with no context.

Communists understand the dialectical movement of the water level within the cup from its historical context.