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America’s Tuesday
Election: Hope on
the Horizon for Democracy? By Matthew Fox 11/08/2025 |
There is much to ponder over the election results on Tuesday. Even Republicans are showing concern. Texan Senator Ted Cruz called it “a disaster” and “an electoral blowout.” Sean Hannity called it “a disaster of a night” and tells us his New York friends “are officially depressed and scared.” |
One letter writer, identifying himself as a “lifelong Republican,” feels “they have lost the Republicans who are centrists….There is nothing in MAGA for us so we are voting for candidates who better reflect our values.” |
CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten explains what the 2025 election results say about the impact of the White House tenant’s favorability rating on Republican candidates. |
Ah,
“values.” What a sweet word to hear when watching masked thugs beating up on people on the streets and financed by the Trump budget (“big beautiful bill”) to the tune of $145 billion voted on by every Republican in Congress. Those who also voted to gut Medicaid, Medicare, SNAP, and USAID money for dying children in Africa and elsewhere, while giving trillions in tax cuts to billionaires. Another letter said: “As an Ex Republican, I agree, MAGA does not have any place for common-sense centrists or the rule of law, actually. Not one thing.” |
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| The would-be ruler has become a lame duck president after just nine months in office. The
emperor has lost his clothes. Democrats are licking their chops over what might transpire a year from now when mid-term elections occur. Kudos to all those who ran and listened |
to the voters and won, and all those who showed up to vote for common sense and the common good and values other than the dominant voices of those now in charge of things. It’s as if someone or something finally lit a match in Americans, and “we the people” woke up out of a long slumber. Democracy happened. People
voted their outrage. I think this is just the beginning of a collective wake-up. I wonder what the billionaires and the companies that received equivalent largesse in the Republican evil budget bill are thinking these days after the election. Maybe their investment in the most corrupt administration in history may not have been so smart after
all? |
We know the names of at least 24 persons and corporations who have put money into Trump’s pockets for the glitzy “ballroom” that will dwarf the White House. Among them are these: Altria (Philip Morris); Amazon; Apple; Booz |
Dwarfing both the Executive Residence and the West Wing: plans for the new East Wing, based on a model from October 2025. Wikimedia Commons |
Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Google; Lockheed Martin; Meta (Facebook); Microsoft; Palantir Technologies; T-Mobile. The amounts they have contributed are being kept secret, but the fact of a blatant conflict of interest for each of these companies is no secret. Many of these companies hold
huge contracts with the federal government—$279 billion since 2021 alone! Many of them were facing federal enforcement actions for violating various regulations, including many antitrust and labor rights violations. But their cases have, in many cases, been dropped now. Surprise? Collectively, these companies doled out $960 million to lobbying and political contributions during the 2024 elections alone. These companies currently have “a stunningly wide array of interests before the federal government—from taxation
to trade policy, battlefield domain awareness to telephone poles, consumer privacy to product liability rules, appropriations to cybersecurity, and much more.”* |
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| It almost smells like “pay and play,” doesn’t it? This is capitalism at its most sour. It is Citizens United and SCOTUS at its most stupid and destructive of real democracy and real accountability. Furthermore, “these companies are |
engaged in an utterly embarrassing spectacle of prostrating themselves before a wannabe dictator.” That dictator and his sycophants took a shellacking at the polls this week. Might American democracy be rising from its slumber? Stay tuned. Stay active. Stay alert and stay involved. The power
resides in the American voter and journalists and media who choose to speak truth and not lies. |
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Robert Weissman, Michael Tanglis, Eileen O’Grady, Jon Golinger, Rick Claypool and Alan Zibel, “Banquet of Greed: Trump Ballroom Donors Feast on Federal Funds and Favors,” Public Citizen, November 5, 2025. All quotes hereon are from that article. See the full report HERE.
Banner Image: A blue wave of Democratic victories rose throughout the U.S. on Tuesday, November 4, 2025. Photo in Wikimedia Commons. |
Queries for Contemplation How are you feeling about the election results this last Tuesday? Do you see
some hope on the horizon for American democracy? In what ways are you contributing to the cause?
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