At least now our comrades in the US might have a chance at getting some of the softer liberals to oppose the US government and its genocidal imperialist policies. Not the diehard liberals and mainstream pundits, they are ride or die for genocide and war and will only become more embittered against the left, but your average well meaning but naive center-left socially liberal friend or family member who would otherwise have gone to sleep for another four years under a Democrat administration.

The coming months and years will be fertile ground for radicalization, IF communists distance themselves from the failed liberal approach and understand how to take advantage of the crises to come in order to mobilize the working class against not just one party or the other but the entire system. Because the crises that will come would have been inevitable no matter who won, as the logic of late stage capitalism and moribund imperialism dictates that the system continue to decay, and neither side of the bourgeois dictatorship is able to stop it.

The most that Republicans can do is give even more handouts to the wealthy and take even more of a wrecking ball to the social safety nets, which will act like a stimulant creating the artificial impression of short term economic recovery but which after the initial high wears off will make the eventual crash even harder. They’re not going to reverse deindustrialization and they may even accelerate the demise of US global imperialist hegemony the more aggressive and reckless actions they resort to.