Pursuant to his constitutional design, last night a badly divided electorate got an utterly  gridlocked government—with the Supreme Court and Senate in the hands of one party  and the House of Representatives and White House marginally in the hands of the  other. That's as good an RX against tyranny as it gets.

Vlad Putin is probably smiling, too. His economy is being battered by Washington's  bully-boy sanctions because he has been falsely accused of throwing the election to  Trump in 2016. This time, even by the lights of the Dem and Deep State Russophobes,  however, Putin appears to have been AWOL.

Yet the natural Blue Wave that was allegedly aborted in 2016 by Putin's hackers and  social media trolls didn't happen. What we got, instead, is Sleepy Joe (apparently)  stumbling into the Oval Office with just one electoral college vote to spare (270-268).  That is, the real people of Flyover America, not the Kremlin's trolls, again voted for the  Donald and came up but a whisker short.

Ordinarily, conservatives should be smiling most of all. Donald Trump is no friend of  liberty, small government or fiscal and monetary rectitude, and he's now (almost) gone.  Good riddance!