I Don’t Feel So Good

Originally published on Not Sorry Feminism.

Last night, as I was on my way to an election party at a friend’s place, the anxiety hit me. What if Democrats don’t even take back the house? What if it’s a repeat of 2016, the polls are wrong, the Republicans have fixed all the elections, and we’re about to plunge into full one-party fascism?

Obviously, that didn’t happen. The polls were right. The Democrats took back the House and the Senate stayed about the same. There were a lot of great wins, including two Native American women winning House seats, one of them a…