Thrilling as it was to watch Donald Trump, the Congressional Republicans and the MAGA movement defeated in historic style, last week, the even better news that has emerged in the election's wake is that they suffered a sweeping cultural rejection too.

As the midterm results reveal the dimensions of the Democratic victory, it has become clear that its meaning extended beyond blue over red. What the voters declared with their choices in one contest after another, was the end of the MAGA project – again, not just as an electoral phenomenon but as war on American culture. Voters repudiated Trump’s attempted restoration of white supremacy, his routine misogyny, his appeals to phony piety and to nativist bigotry, his worship of money and all the ugliness he has manifested since that trip down the escalator in 2015.

Specific examples of that rejection span the entire map -- from New Hampshire to South Carolina, from Michigan to Mississippi, and from Arizona to Alaska. Some rose to national attention, heavily publicized as “firsts”: Abdul El-Sayed, the first Muslim-American in the U.S. Senate; Gina Hinojosa, the first Latina Governor of Texas; Keisha Lance Bottoms, the first Black female governor (and a truly extraordinary departure for Georgia); Xavier Becerra, the first Latino governor of California; Chris Pappas, the first openly gay man in the U.S. Senate; and Deb Haaland of New Mexico, the first female Native American governor.