Checks and balances are out the window. Thu Jan 7, 2021 The midnight train to Georgia has derailed. Republicans’ long winning streak in Georgia’s Senate elections ended abruptly. Democrat Rev. Raphael Warnock, the first black Democrat to be elected to the Senate from the South, beat the Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler in one of two January 5 th run-off Senate races, 50.7 percent to 49.3 percent. “Welcome to the new Georgia,” Warnock told NPR on Wednesday morning. The “new Georgia” elected a rabble rouser who has said that you can’t serve God and the military, that the police are thugs and gangsters, and that “the Marxist Critique has much to teach the black church.”