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.
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.