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The people who it expected to ask nicely, no longer want to ask any more. Those who had been divided, are uniting. Entirely different ideas came into their heads — ideas with the power to overturn things. So yes, in this sense, the situation is catastrophic. And this is perhaps the best political news in decades. The first act of the catastrophe — and not the last, mind, just the first – is an act of the imagination. And indeed that is why we have rallied together this evening. To imagine the catastrophe. Let’s bring the cat astrophe to them! Translated by David Broder