So, that was a bit underwhelming. Oh, it’s good that the Democrats took the House, don’t get me wrong. Between the gerrymandering and the voter suppression, that’s no small feat. But I think I read that the average pickup under these circumstances is something like 28 seats, and last I saw they’d picked up 26. And of course they actually lost a few seats in the Senate, which in some respects doesn’t make much of a difference, but it still allows Trump to continue packing the courts and makes it even less likely to get a conviction in the Senate (which, really, wasn’t gonna happen anyway). Here in my neck of the woods, the scumbag Republican Congresscritter who hates meeting with constituents (though I must admit he does a pretty good job of pretending to be non-partisan while always doing the GOP’s bidding) won once again. And my NYS Assemblyman – who didn’t even bother sending out a mailing to my house, and who has never done much of anything that I’m aware of – won again. Democrats won the NYS Senate, though they’ve done that before only to have a group of DINOs caucus with the Republicans anyway. And of course Governor Andy won again, which I suppose is better than having the Republican win but it’s not exactly anything to jump for joy over.

But at least the Democrats will be able to launch real investigations into Trump and his gang of thieves. Whether they actually will or not remains to be seen, of course, but I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt for now. And the Affordable Care Act should be safe (not that it’s exactly a great piece of legislation, but it’s a start), as should Social Security and Medicare (though that remains to be seen, too – Democrats have a tendency to negotiate by starting at their opponent’s position and then working their way to the right from there).

So while I’m slightly less than ecstatic about Tuesday’s results, I at least am not feeling suicidal. I’ll save that for 2020.