Nobel prize winning economist, academic, and author Joseph E. Stiglitz offers an optimistic view of what can happen now that Trump has been defeated [though he's still fighting against it]:
"We have approached the brink of the end of our cherished democratic rights, we have peered over the precipice and contemplated what lies below, and that terrifying vision may have provided the impetus for exactly the kind of national solidarity the American people need to rebuild our democracy."