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And I continue to be blown away today as more and more information becomes available.

And while all of us, I think, who pay very close attention to politics, we're all well aware of all of the encouraging signs leading into Election Day and the sheer... breath and scope of the sort of the pushback in the results against the horrors of the Trump administration has certainly continued to knock me back on my heels as it's come in from literally all corners of the nation.

It's still...

You know, difficult at least for me to kind of wrap my brain around all of this in truth and adequately share it with you, get it across to you.

But the blue wave ran deeper still as Democrats broke legislative statehouse trifectas, control of the governorship and both chambers of the state legislature in Georgia, in New Hampshire, in Ohio, Iowa and Texas.

while winning legislative trifectas in formerly red Arizona, where Democrats are now on track to control every statewide office and both houses of the state legislature for the first time since 1966.

Also, Democrats will now have trifectas in battleground Pennsylvania and so-called blue wall states like Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, where which formerly featured one of the most gerrymandered state legislatures in the nation and where on Tuesday voters elected, in addition to finally taking back both majorities in both state chambers, also elected their first black governor.

Democratic former Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley won on Tuesday night against Trump endorsed Congressman Tom Tiffany and in a state known for its razor thin statewide electoral margins.

Thank you indeed.

I've been speaking to Bruce Shapiro, Contributing Editor of The Nation, Executive Director of the Global Centre for Journalism and Trauma, about America.

From The Nation magazine, this is Start Making Sense.

I'm John Wiener.

Later in the hour, the historic transformations brought by this week's election, starting with the South.

That's coming up in a minute.

For election analysis, we turn to John Nichols.

Of course, he's executive editor of The Nation.

John, welcome back.

It's an honor to be with you, John.

From The Nation magazine, this is Start Making Sense.

I'm John Wiener.

Later in the hour, the historic transformations brought by this week's election, starting with the South.

That's coming up in a minute.

For election analysis, we turn to John Nichols.

Of course, he's executive editor of The Nation.

John, welcome back.

It's an honor to be with you, John.

I mean, this is the success story.

And as I was getting ready to interview you and John Nichols, by the way, of The Nation magazine, A friend of mine sent me an article from the Houston Chronicle, but then I was looking around the Houston Chronicle and I saw another article, not the one that she sent me.

She wanted me to look at how much money that the oil and gas industry was making as a result of the war in Iran.

And of course, that's the story for Texas.

I think it's the most important day of the year.

I'm just going to tell you right now, and I think it should be a celebration.

i think it's more important than july 4th it's more important than halloween it's more important than anything and yet we don't celebrate it and honor it the way we do those other holidays so i just think we need to make sure we understand that so i'm lucky john nichols said yes john nichols is the executive editor of the nation he previously served as a magazine's national affairs correspondent and washington correspondent he has written and co-written so many books it would make my head spin but his latest book was co-written with senator bernie sanders it's a new york times bestseller it's okay to be angry about capitalism Thank you for finding the time, John.

I appreciate it.

We have a great bunch of our favorite people in America joining us today.

John Nichols of The Nation magazine, Mr. Max Burns, the sublime Eljoy Williams.

And in our three, Rhonda Hanson and Keith Price will be right here in studio with us.

to give their thoughts on the decomposing fascist use of desperate, pathetic racism in the final days leading up to this race.

We're at 866-997-4748, 866-997-GRIT.

If I could have one person to talk to on this particular election day, it might just well be John Nichols.

He is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation magazine.

He's a contributing writer for The Progressive and In These Times.

And the free trade is what hollowed out Detroit and Flint, Michigan.

Flint, Michigan and the Detroit area used to be one of the most wealthy and best areas to live in in the nation.

During Motown, Motor City, when we were manufacturing automobiles and other things in the state of Michigan, people had good jobs.

Well, not only in the state of Michigan, this is all over the Midwest, in Ohio.

This is February 10th, 2016.

So this is still during the primary when she's running against Bernie Sanders.

Michelle Alexander writes this article in The Nation.

You can see the headline, Why Hillary Clinton Doesn't Deserve the Black Vote.