Anyone who voted last Tuesday, or who lined up for early voting during the previous week, must have been impressed as I was by the sheer number of people who turned out, sometimes standing in the rain for hours. I’m not speaking about the result or about the process (which is crazy), but the participation, especially when so many people had so much else to worry about. Sixty-five percent seem to have voted, up less than half in recent elections. This is not bad, considering how much of the population is completely disgusted with politics and would not vote for anyone under any circumstances. Enough people cared about this one, enough to give up their time and their comfort and take the risk of infection. That’s pretty impressive, and that’s what democracy is supposed to be like, but rarely is. The idea of free citizens governing themselves by electing the best and the brightest people among them as representatives is one of the best notions that the human race has ever produced. It’s a