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It’s clear, at least for now, that the nightmare possibilities—armed federal troops at polling stations, ballots seized by ICE, etc—were fever dreams. They were reasonable under the circumstances, given the barrage of threats from the White House-DOJ threat machine.

They were designed to frighten American voters. Our votes would be cast in vain, there might well be violence at the polls, names will be taken and retribution will follow.

At least for now, none of that has happened. We were not fools. New Orleanians, for example, are used to making emergency preps for hurricanes that end up straying elsewhere. But we were not fooled. We saw our civic duty, and we did it. In the end, at least for now, all the threats, the predictions, the dire suggestions, have just been the poisonous exhaust of a fading bully.

We have re-learned the lesson of the playground: stand up to the bully. And we’ve passed with flying colors.