With 98 percent of results counted, Bernie Sanders emerged as the winner in last night’s New Hampshire primary.

The victory comes after weeks of what can only be called a concerted effort to marginalize and diminish the most insurgent and potentially transformative presidential campaign in living memory — an effort undertaken not only by Sanders’s official opponents, but also by much of the country’s media apparatus and factions of a ruling political and economic class that would sooner see Donald Trump’s reelection than a socialist at the head of a growing popular movement secure the Democratic nomination.

Against all odds, Sanders prevailed.