Simon Schama at the FT:

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"And then as the 8th turned into the 9th, the Curious Incident unfolded whereby the Republican dog failed to bark in the night and many of us, doggedly attached to that battered old thing, American democracy, found ourselves ambushed by the one outcome for which we were entirely unprepared: the shock of optimism."

https://www.ft.com/content/f8ee609a-53c4-4917-89ee-175178df6003