The US Midterms

 

The midterm election results down in the US were quite a shock. Not that they strayed so far from the polls; people were discounting polls. More that the logic of a first midterm in a president’s term almost always means major gains by the opposition party, plus the disastrous economic news and the growing signs of Biden’s senility. And John Fetterman. And growing signs that the public is no longer embracing the woke agenda. Regardless of polls, people were expecting a “red tsunami.”

Why didn’t it happen?

It seems to me the only plausible reason is Donald Trump. As unhappy as folks might have been with Biden and the Democrats, they did not want Trump back. So they did not want to vote for his candidates.

The overwhelming public urge seems to be to get back to the time before either Trump or Biden, or to get beyond it.

You might have expected this to cause a low turnout, as voters were unhappy with either alternative. Instead, it caused a high one: half the country rushed out to vote for anybody but the Biden Dems, and the other half to vote for anybody but Trump.