In his editorial today, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune explains why those who were shocked and dismayed by the surprise upset win of Republican Donald Trump in Tuesday's election:

Keep faith with our Constitution. Nowhere in that document will you find an imperial presidency. Should Trump pursue his darkest visions of deporting millions of people, disrupting military alliances or even upsetting delicate trade arrangements, he will confront the two other branches of government - and a national voice that withheld its popular vote from his mandate.

Beating within that Constitution is the pulse of an informed, engaged citizenry.

People such as the candidate who remains undeterred by an election loss.

Or the campaign worker who refuses to wallow in defeat.

It is the voter in the political minority who carries on by keeping score and holding the majority accountable.

This is no time for disillusionment. More here.