Yesterday, the world awakened to a reality that hundreds of millions of people neither expected nor wanted: an America boasting Donald J. Trump as its President-elect. After more than a year of egregiously manipulative campaign ads, roller coaster polling, grandstanding debate performances, and recycled (and unfulfilled) promises from the 2020 election cycle, we were primed to expect the worst. We’d endured warnings from pundits and political operatives of the looming threat of fascism and...