Greetings! Yesterday’s newsletter set two records. One bad, one good.  First, the election results triggered the largest number of one day unsubscribes in TheRighting’s seven-year history by a wide margin.  My guess is these subscribers understandably can’t take the rhetoric from the right anymore along with the grim reality of the next four years.  As one reader told me, “What you do is so important.  I just have to shut down the poison from the right. Reading the headlines in the email today physically hurt.” Another subscriber simply stated, “I have to limit my news consumption for the sake of my health. I’m sorry.”  On the flip side, I received a record number of emails thanking me for the work I’m doing and encouraging me to keep on Righting. From time to time, I toy with the idea of halting publication (or selling), but earth-shaking events like Tuesday’s election keep me in the game…Yesterday, a distraught pre-school principal send me this note and I want to share part of it with you: “Given my past life as the head of a school for children, it feels like the school bully just punched all the nice kids in the gut after telling us we were all dumb as hell and just plain trash, as all the other kids cheered.  Feels like the principal got punched too, as well as all of the teachers who tried so hard to instill values of kindness and the golden rule. Feels pretty awful”…It’s 1460 days until the 2028 White House race. Readers, pace yourselves. It’s gonna be a long four years, but I’m with you on this journey….If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting.  Howard

Greetings! The American people have spoken. This is who we are…If there’s a slim ray of sunlight in the  election outcome, it’s likely there will be a peaceful transfer of power come Inauguration Day. Remember the good old days when we used to take that for granted?...Homepage headline from the right this morning: Breitbart’s Trump Towers…Can’t say the election results surprised me.  Since the Veep debate between J.D. Vance, and Tim Walz, I felt a vibe shift toward Team Trump from Kamala & crew. And I feared correctly that Trump’s increasingly incendiary language and coarse gestures the last month created an unusual opportunity for him to appeal to hard-to-reach young male voters…I spent the bulk of last night surfing between CNN and MSNBC. Enough with Steve Kornacki's shtick and I’m off the MSNBC data geek for at least the rest of the month.  Amazon Prime’s election coverage featuring Brian Williams was shockingly poor.  I’m a long-time Williams fan, but he seemed rusty and off his game. The newscast’s digital  backdrop inexplicably made it look like Williams at times was anchoring from some lonely country road, adjacent to a cornfield…As of 10:45 a.m. EST today, Trump has been silent on Truth Social about the election results…Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen were among the notable guest commentators for the UK’s Channel 4 election night coverage. If I were Daniels  and Cohen, I’d keep a much lower profile for the next four years…One of the many sad parts of Trump’s second presidential victory, is that he’s likely to be remembered as a major transformative figure in our nation’s history, rather than an early 21^st century political aberration…An unusually warm November sun shines today on TheRighting’s global headquarters here in NYC, but it’s nonetheless a very dark day….If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting.  Howard