I don't want to make any assumptions about what you mean when you say "Also, he is white". I highly suggest you clarify that because it's quite off-putting.

To the broader point of your article, I wish I could be so hopeful. What I expect will actually happen is more fence sitting. More polite discourse "across the isle. Another round of having all the power and doing nothing with it. I hope I'm wrong, we don't have time for that anymore.