Littwin: The election is finally over. We are divided.

COLORADO – By Mike Littwin for The Colorado Independent. Now that the elections are over, we can get back to our boring old lives in the land of TrumpWorld.

Take Wednesday, for starters.

Jeff Sessions gets fired. The Mueller investigation is under threat. Some Dems are calling it a constitutional crisis. The interim attorney general, now in charge of the investigation, once called the Mueller probe a witch hunt and has suggested defunding it. GOP Sen. Susan Collins warns that Donald Trump must keep his hands off Mueller probe. Everyone laughs at the thought that Collins would do anything more than send a tweet.

Trump holds a 90-minute news conference, during which he yells at several reporters, whom he seems to have called on for just that purpose. “You’re a very rude person,” Trump rudely tells CNN’s Jim Acosta. And then the White House takes away Acosta’s press pass, but only after sending out an edited video making it seem as if he had “placed his hands” on a White House intern. He hadn’t.

Oh, and then there was Trump’s lesson for those losing House Republicans who had failed to sufficiently “embrace” Trumpian policies: Good riddance. Mike Coffman is one who gets the, uh, rude treatment. “Too bad, Mike,” Trump says with all the empathy he can muster (which is to say none). That’s just before Trump warns House Democrats that if they deign to investigate him, he will respond with a “warlike posture,” one which I’m assuming he learned in military school.

The thing about Wednesday — and Trump’s post-election warlike posturing — is that it explains everything about Tuesday.

There’s no point in arguing who won the day nationally. Dems easily winning the House, where they can now check any Trump legislation, handily beats Republicans added a few more seats in keeping the Senate. But here in Colorado, when I saw that Democrats had, for the first time since 1936, swept all the statewide constitutional seats and won both houses of the legislature, I figured that was all you needed to know about Colorado’s election.

Turns out, I was wrong. (I wasn’t rude, but I was wrong.)

Colorado is not an outlier. Our election night was not unlike a lot of election nights across America. I hate to keep bringing up Trump all the time, but this is all about, well, you can guess.

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