So guys, I’m out. I’ll obviously have more to say tomorrow as we take stock of tonight’s disaster. Obviously I never saw this coming. All the Trump talk of a hidden vote unseen in the polling was apparently true, whether he intended it to be or not.

The next four years are going to fucking suck. All the progress we made the last eight years will be lost, and we’ll be starting from zero.

I ask one thing for now: please stop the talk about leaving the country. Conservatives suffered through eight years of Obama and never gave up. So why would you prove yourself weaker than those assholes?

We are stronger than they are, because we have the moral high ground. We don’t need to debase ourselves and support an asshole sexual predator. We don’t have to resort to hate and voter suppression to win. Our core voters aren’t dying off; they are growing. Arizona, Georgia, Texas are the future. The Rust Belt is … waning.

But Trump tapped into something visceral, and whites responded. “America is changing because of those people, and I don’t like it!” So it didn’t matter that we crushed our own numbers, they made people feel like their backs were up against the wall, and it worked. They voted as if their lives depended on it, even though it didn’t.

There’s no way to sugarcoat this—we’re in for a world of shit. It’s going to be awful. But we’ll be here, bedeviling Trump and his party, making their lives as miserable as possible, until either we succeed, or I’m in fucking prison.

No one is leaving this country. We love it, and we love our people. So we’re going to fight for it.

But for now, let’s take a moment to grieve, because America isn’t what we thought it was.

And then, we start fighting. And we’ll need a general. So ...

Bernie Sanders for DNC chair.

Who is aboard?