Posted on 11/08/2018 3:52:06 PM PST by EdnaMode
For months we’ve heard from sundry media apocalypticians that this year’s midterms were the last exit off the road to autocracy. On Tuesday, the American people delivered a less dramatic verdict about the significance of the occasion.
In a word: meh.
Are you interested in seeing Donald Trump voted out of office in two years? I hope so — which is why you should think hard about that “meh.” This week’s elections were, at most, a very modest rebuke of a president reviled by many of his opponents, this columnist included, as an unprecedented danger to the health of liberal democracy at home and abroad. The American people don’t entirely agree.
We might consider listening to them a bit more — and to ourselves somewhat less.
The 28-seat swing that gave Democrats control of the House wasn’t even half the 63 seats Republicans won in 2010. Yet even that shellacking (to use Barack Obama’s word) did nothing to help Mitt Romney’s chances two years later. The Republican gain in the Senate (the result in Arizona isn’t clear at this writing) was more predictable in a year when so many red-state Democrats were up for re-election. But it underscores what a non-wave election this was.
It also underscores that while “the Resistance” is good at generating lots of votes, it hasn’t figured out how to turn the votes into seats. Liberals are free to bellyache all they want that they have repeatedly won the overall popular vote for the presidency and Congress while still losing elections, and that the system is therefore “rigged.”
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DEmocrats +30 and probably be higher.
One week ago some around here said the pollsters were not to be trusted because wrong about 2016 Trump.
cookpolitical, , Larry Sabato , Nate Silver etc
With a much larger than normal midterm turnout, I don’t think it was a “meh” election. Rather it was a large “NO!” with an almost as big and enthusiastic “YES!”.
Well. I think it is a warning shot from the suburbs to Trump if you ask me. I think he has a lot of good policy that works for these folks, his staff just need to find a better way to convince more of them that he has a great plan.
It’s always funny when the people fighting to overturn the 2016 election because they didn’t like the results claim that Trump is somehow a threat to “liberal democracy,” even though he cut back significantly on regulations and some bureaucratic positions (i.e. the power of the government), is a populist small-d democrat who wants the voice of the people heard, and has been conservative in his use of executive orders compared to Obama. It only makes sense if you translate their Newspeak to “Trump is a threat to leftist authoritarianism” rather than liberal democracy.
Many people in the suburbs voted for a party totally committed to the destruction of the suburbs. Self-hating suburbanites.
There is so much ignorance among these infants. I blame the education industry.
And your point is?
that they unfortunately were accurate about the House.
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