At last.
The longest, strangest, most expensive and emotionally taxing campaign in our history is at last over. We have passed through the struggle and come out the other side, but it was not without cost. It’s left me thinking a lot about this scene from Henry V, from after the Battle of Agincourt:
But all is not bleak.
As we watched on TV, the fear and anger of the last four years dissipated in the warm, summer-like air of a bright, sun-dappled Saturday afternoon. As people all over the nation and the world danced in the streets, we saw that the last four years have not robbed us of our potential to hope or expect the best in each other.
Thank you to each and every one of our volunteers who phonebanked in order to get the vote out in critical battleground states. We have elected a decent and driven man and woman to the highest offices in our nation, and we deserve to celebrate. We are returning this nation to its proper place, not only on the world stage, but also, once more we look to be the more perfect union at home.
Democratically yours,
Matthew C. Murray