From: januarybaybee@gmail.com   
      
   (CNN) With one Senate seat secured for Democrats in Georgia and the other   
   Senate race yet to be called, it is already clear that there is a lesson to be   
   learned from the runoffs.   
      
   It's not just that President Donald Trump has largely undermined and ruined   
   the Republican Party. It is also that progressive grassroots leaders (led   
   overwhelmingly by Black women) have reimagined, recreated and rebuilt the   
   state's Democratic Party    
   coalition.   
      
   We should not stop at denouncing the lack of smarts on the Republican side. We   
   must also praise the real genius of Georgia's activists and organizers. This   
   is not just a story about the final failure of Trump. It is a story of the   
   success of Stacey    
   Abrams -- and many of the unsung, bottom-up, inspirational leaders with whom   
   she has worked for years.   
      
   They not only helped secure a Democratic Georgia Senate seat, but they helped   
   elect the first Black senator in Georgia, the Rev. Raphael Warnock.   
      
   Of course, there is plenty to criticize on the Republican side.   
      
   For example, the GOP ran two candidates who spent their time demonizing their   
   opponents as "radical socialists" rather than offering their own vision to   
   inspire voters. They marched lockstep with Trump, rather than showing   
   independent leadership. Kelly    
   Loeffler made the unwise decision to continually defame and malign the pastor   
   of Dr. Martin Luther King's church. Her attacks on the Rev. Warnock's sermons   
   and ties to other pastors caused a backlash that likely turned out more Black   
   voters who wanted to    
   defend the Black church. The strategy failed for Loeffler.   
      
   Poor judgment from Republicans was not confined to candidates in the Peach   
   State. In Washington DC, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was all too   
   happy to play the part of Ebenezer Scrooge at Christmastime.   
      
   When he blocked the $2,000 Covid-19 relief checks that progressive Democrats   
   and President Trump both demanded, he single-handedly gifted Democrats a   
   winning closing message: Vote for us, and we will get you enough money to   
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