"Say glory": North Carolina has so much to celebrate about this election | Opinion
I’m not much accustomed to celebrating elections. Not enough experience, I suppose. Who would have guessed that the most important election of one’s lifetime would turn out to be the best one? My late mother-in-law would have instructed: “Say glory.” Nationally, the renunciation was entire. Senator John Ossoff put it marvelously, as he is increasingly wont to do: “In sweeping and decisive victories, the American people have rebuked the depravity, corruption and incompetence of the failed lame duck president Donald J. Trump.” In North Carolina, we could add, Tar Heels rose dramatically to defeat a loathsome 16-year Republican war on constitutional democracy — a crusade aimed at crushing the poor and the marginalized and lionizing the wealthy and the white. Our Democrats, and their compatriots, delivered a new U.S. Senator, a massively altered and dominant congressional caucus, an inspiring NC Supreme Court justice, a politically balanced state senate and, astonishingly, a boldly Democratic state house. I can barely type the words. It is easy, these days, to look past Roy Cooper — so marvelously he has performed. Almost as if we had a right to expect it. I have great affection for Cooper, in part because he is so different
