It’s been a week since the election of Donald Trump and the shock is just now beginning to wear off. The ritual Democratic self-flagellation is calming a bit as most people finally take a breath and recognize that while the result was a terrible disappointment it was anything but a landslide for Donald Trump, nor was it a crushing rebuke of the Democratic party. As Philip Bump of The Washington Post points out in this preliminary analysis: “Trump’s popular-vote victory will likely end up as the smallest since 2000. It is due, in part, to fewer people voting. Exit polls are imperfect, but they suggest where each party gained and lost votes since 2020…What we can say, though, is that this was not an electoral landslide, but a narrowly contested race in which Trump is likely to have benefited as much from who didn’t turn out to vote for his candidacy than who did turn out to vote for him. Right now, the first order of business is to shake off the defeat and confront the challenge of Donald Trump’s ghastly agenda. As we have seen in the last few days it’s shaping up to be both more chaotic and more extreme than even in 2016. Last time, Trump at least had a transition team put together by his transition chief former Gov. Chris Christie in place, even if he threw most of their plan out almost immediately. They held meetings in Trump Tower in New York to vet candidates…