Democrats of all stripes declared victory on Tuesday night in clearest sign yet voters have had enough of Trumpism
No single Democratic coalition can claim victory after Tuesday’s resounding midterm results – all parts of the Democratic coalition can.
Their wins were so sweeping, so resounding, that factional divisions fail to explain them. This year, the most important thing Democrats had to be to win was, simply, not Republicans.
Trump gave Democrats the political gifts of a deeply unpopular war against Iran that led to rising prices, chaotic tariffs that devastated small businesses, farmers and international alliances, healthcare cuts, a deadly deportation scheme, self-enrichment, corruption, a never-ending debacle over a reflecting pool renovation.
The fact that over 4 million people voted for Paxton over in Texas says a whole lot about just how many dumbasses in this country still choose to vote against their own interest just because they’ll “never vote anything but republican” … Don’t even get me started on Florida… they’re so fucking helpless.
At least Texas flipped blue in its key races. Texas has always been a stronghold state for Republicans, without which they could never win a presidential election. This just shook that foundation.
Hope people turn out again in 2028.
I’m sure they will. After all, if Trump had to beg people to act as though he were on the ballot this election and lost bigly, imagine the blue noose around his neck that’ll be the 2028 election!
And that’s before considering he’s not long for this world.
I hate that people say “always”. Texas used to actually be blue in the 90s. I consider this “getting us back to where we should be”
They won’t turn out. I fully expect to see the usual lukewarm Dem control again, where they play too nice and some not truly blue Dem’s block everything and a bunch of let’s get along rhetoric.
But I’d love to see them just burn the fascist approaches to the ground. Let’s see investigations and new laws passed to prevent the executive branch and supreme Court from having so much damn control. Need a rebalancing.
They should also require Congress to actually work more or not get paid.
None of this will happen. Dems will use baby gloves like they always do.
I can’t wrap my head around it.
I wonder if it’s related to all the people migrating from California after covid? Or maybe those people were super red and drawn to Texas because of it.