Maybe if I unload here for a bit, I'll stop feeling like the world is coming to an end

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13. We got (or earned) a huge bone when we won the House back

Can you imagine how much worse it would be if the GOP were still in charge of their “investigations”? I think our country would have been over and done with if it weren’t for the midterms. As it is, we just have to be patient. Which sucks, but it could be so much worse.

As I was watching Stephen Colbert’s monologue last night I realized that most of society is on our side. Most people are good. Most people don’t like corruption. Societally we’re winning: most people love Queer Eye, everyone wants insurance coverage for preexisting conditions... the GOP has its backwards base and we have everyone else. People like us just don’t make the news—the bad guys do—so it’s easy to forget that there are more of us than there are of them.