So it turns out that President Donald Trump posting a video of himself dumping poop on Americans was not a winning electoral strategy for the Republican Party.

Dispatching roving gangs of masked federal agents to cities across America and giving them carte blanche to grab whomever they want while tossing tear gas at anyone who doesn’t like it? Also not a real vote winner, apparently.

The massive blue wave of Democratic victories in the Nov. 4 election sent a straightforward message to Trump and his circling-the-drain Republican colleagues: You all are, quite literally, the worst.

Polling had already shown how much Americans broadly dislike everything the Trump administration is doing. But in the first election of Trump’s second term in office, voters in red, blue and purple states made clear they aren’t buying the smug cruelty and king-like behavior the president and his lackeys are selling.

In the most high-profile races – for mayor of New York City and governors of Virginia and New Jersey – Democrats fended off millions of right-wing dollars and relentless Islamophobic and anti-transgender fearmongering to win all three offices convincingly.

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