Georgia’s Been Blue For a Long Time

And now, finally, the longtime dreams of so many have been realized

Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff speak before an Augusta canvass launch block party at Robert Howard Community Center on January 4, 2021 in Hephzibah, Georgia. Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

“On Tuesday night, Georgia got the big win.

The ramifications of Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff being elected to the United States Senate have staggering ramifications for the next four years, and likely the next few decades, of American life. They are also a firm, and arguably definitive, rebuke to Donald Trump and the festering rot of Trumpism, a powerful case for both the restorative power of government and the fundamental appeal of basic human decency. All the celebrating you’re doing in places that aren’t Georgia, please keep doing it: It’s an incredible victory, and we should all be elated, or at the very least deeply relieved, that it happened.” — Will Leitch

Read Leitch’s story in its entirety below.

Georgia Has Been Blue For a Long Time