(Damon Winter | The New York Times) Voters wait to cast their ballots on the last day of early voting in Atlanta, on Nov. 4, 2022. “Given the degree to which election denialism was elevated in this midterm — to a level never seen before in our history — and given the way in which most of the Trump-imitating knuckleheads who made denialism central to their campaigns got their clocks cleaned, we may have just dodged one of the biggest arrows ever aimed at the heart of our democracy,” Thomas Friedman writes.