With any luck and a strong legal team to fight interference, the United States will have a new president-elect shortly

There's the question of what happens to the trash once it's been removed. Some fear that "if he loses the presidency, he doesn't lose his voice or influence."

That's certainly a risk.

More likely to me though is that he'll prove to have been a useful idiot and fall from sight.

I'm not banking on this. But it's pretty obvious he's far less an inspiring or savvy leader than a useful and pliable tool. His usefulness spent, the true puppetmasters will discard him as they do anything else past its useful life.

The bad news is that they, and those susceptible to their sway, will remain.

An open investigation of political crimes, interference, corruption, foreign manipulation (or worse), and more, must follow. As must a restrengthening of institutions (the press, media old and new, courts, education, rehabilitation, public health, politics and their parties), and of civic mindedness and civic values --- liberty, equality, justice, fraternity.

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