If the midterms were a battle for America's soul, who won?

[robkelk]

Partial transcript of an interview (with a link to the audio of the complete interview): If the midterms were a battle for America's soul, who won?

No tl;dr possible - it's too detailed and far-ranging. (And if anybody replies within a half-hour of seeing this post, I'll know you didn't actually listen to the interview.)

There is this, though:

If you look at when positive social change happens, it rarely happens through voting for the people we like, who then pass a law. What happens is that you have a great groundswell; you have communities of activists, of parents, of sympathetic people who begin to make changes. A thousand small sanities are usually more effective than one big idea.