One of the most telling -- and bizarre -- aspects of that historic 1994 election was the aftermath. Bill Clinton blamed Democrats in Congress for passing a bad budget bill in 1993 and basically forcing him to sign it against his better judgement.
And this was after the Clinton administration itself had put the budget bill together -- and had strong-armed so many Democrats into supporting it against THEIR better judgement.
The difference with 1994 is that there was an energized GOP telling the electorate how they’d run things differently. Where is that? Look at all of this anger at the Dems and their plans... and there are crickets from the GOP...