Yesterday, my flowers told me something big would happen today, and they were correct. It was tougher than I thought, but when I think about all that money being a failure, I get it. The whole thing is amazing.

It’s a big story. For this impassioned new movement, it feels like the First Battle of Manassas in the Civil War, only the good guys won. When you defeat 80 million dollars in one state election, you have won a stunning and significant victory. We are all “woke” today.

Today was big, very big.

I had a feeling about it yesterday.

What happened in Michigan was that history was made, something our so-called media was trying to understand and doesn’t yet get in part because the corporations that own the journalists don’t want them to, and Donald Trump is still the Orwellian Big Father; there is no one else in the news, at least until this week.

But it’s really simple if you think about it.

Big new movements in America are a tradition; they all start small and after a long struggle.

Remember the Tea Parties, old and new. Donald Trump triggered a big and lasting one he called MAGA; before him, a new generation of rebels triggered another –  forgotten people all, revolts against liberal government, against abortion; almost all of them came from the right. Everyone else was in shock.

Curiously, Mr. Trump has chosen to launch another movement, only it’s not his. His true genius is self-destruction. He bragged that the winner in Michigan was just what he wanted. He will eat that arrogant prediction.

He had the chance to make many people happy; he couldn’t bring himself to do it. He blew it. He has joined the history of the failed Kings of Ancient Greece; being a King is tough. Greed and gold are fatal.

The movements on the left didn’t seem to last or get far, and after a while, they mostly gave up fighting. They seemed overwhelmed by the new, very focused right and the failure of the old left. They were in shock. This week, in Michigan, another movement was born, in the face of a total of $ 80 million in opposition, one of the biggest and most expensive assaults on our democracy, the biggest amount spent in American political history.

That this tsunami of money happened was astounding and unprecedented in a state election. Its failure was even more shocking and significant.

With Abdul El-Sayed also goes the sad story of Israel, this amazing country’s story sullied and stained. What a mistake they are making. They made an unknown physician with a Muslim name an instant overnight hero; David beat Goliath in Michigan. Americans love that story.

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That this foreign effort at interference happened was almost unbelievable.

So was its failure. They outspent El-Sayed nine to one.

What we saw today was a new chapter in American history, also an unbelievable idea just weeks or months ago.

It marked the decline and dissolution of the Trump era, and is being labeled all kinds of hysterical names, from Communist to Socialist to evil.

But that’s not the truth. El-Sayed is not a communist or a Socialist. It’s as if the Billionnaires can’t believe their eyes – too much money in the way. They are right to pee in their pants. But the Billionnaire’s grip is tight. But opposition is what new movements are about.

This is the start of something else, which seems to be neither left nor right but something new: a revolution against the existing, distinctly failed political parties, and into something else – the great pollution and suffering caused by Big Money.

Abdul El-Sayed was the most visible sign of this movement today; New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani was one of the first and most surprising. Others are winning their elections all over the country. Because the race was so close, the media declared that it proved the Michigan election wasn’t strong or popular.

The truth is just the opposite, and by the end of the day, it was becoming apparent.

It didn’t stop the rebels; it gave them strength. And they have their own booming media that tell their truth.

To me, it seems like a miraculous but inevitable revolution of the young. If they could beat that, what can stop them?

They have their own values, their own experiences, their own media. You can’t expect people in a democracy to suffer the way they are and accept it. That was the basis of the Revolution that gave birth to this country. If you read your history, as I have, you will see the similarity.

Our existing labels have little bearing on the ones older people are seeing. This takes bigger thinking.

It is drawing millions of young people with an enthusiasm, patriotism, and interest I haven’t seen since the Vietnam War.

People who label this a “left” movement are poorly informed and slow to learn. It’s a kind of cultural bigotry, like using “woke” to label compassionate people. Elections will be fought and won in a new way.

No one can say yet how that will be.

It’s much bigger than the way we have been trained to think now.

It is a movement attracting both the left and the right; its goal is to restructure our democracy more efficiently and compassionately. It seems most of us want the same thing – to live in peace and have enough money and resources to live with our families in safety and dignity, not fear and abandonment. Poverty and fear are not confined to left and right.

Movements take a long time, and often stumble and lose.

I’m no seer; I can’t predict what will happen. I do know something very important happened today, and I can’t wait to see how it unfolds and begins the hard struggle for a kinder and gentler country. The real struggle, of course, as it has been throughout history, is between the poor and the rich, and the Trump years have created an economy that only goes up, and only for a fractional few with great power.

That is a recipe for Revolution

That’s the other big news from Michigan. The Billionnaires can lose; money matters, but it is no longer enough all of its own. You have to stand for more than being rich to launch or sustain a movement. I suspect the rest of the year will bear that out. Everyone I know up here talks about the yachts while they fight for food and grind their teeth. “Who needs a billion-dollar yacht?”, asked a handyman I met.

Americans – those from teenagers to middle-class men and women- are sick of going broke, losing health care, falling out of the housing market, and getting laid off or forced into jobs that don’t nearly pay them enough to live.

Many middle-class young people can no longer afford college or find jobs to pay for it. Food deprivation is rising all over the country.

It’s a new movement – no fitting name yet – and its boundaries and limits are not clear. It will have a bigger connection to the MAGA movement than either side realizes. People want their leaders to hear them, not to spend every day asking for money and getting some.

A score of young people won as many Congressional seats as any of the movements that preceded them today.

I’m going to pay attention in the coming weeks, although not all the time. I love what I am doing.

And I love it when I can see history being made. To this, we all owe Donald Trump, whose reign is so cruel, offensive, and incompetent that he has spawned a whole new movement with hatred and cruelty.

It’s really not the American way, at least in intention.

History suggests it is the new movement.