"Yet, the idea that somehow a nation that overwhelmingly disapproves or is even angry with the way things are going (73% according to CNN exit polls), failed to produce the fabled red wave and overturn most incumbent representatives, senators and governors, seems utterly absurd to me."
"Yet, the idea that somehow a nation that overwhelmingly disapproves or is even angry with the way things are going (73% according to CNN exit polls), failed to produce the fabled red wave and overturn most incumbent representatives, senators and governors, seems utterly absurd to me."
Me, too.
I am generally in almost disturbingly lock-step agreement with our author's take on things, but in this case, I do not believe it is as simple as Red Team making a paltry showing here. Yes, Red Team isn't representative of anything much other than "Not Blue Team," but at this point, Blue Team has gone so far beyond Full Totalitarian Nightmare State that it seems that Red Team should have been able to win with literal piles of litter-box filth.
The leadership is compromised in one of a myriad of ways as suits each of them personally and the rest of the team has been cowered into following the party line.
"Yet, the idea that somehow a nation that overwhelmingly disapproves or is even angry with the way things are going (73% according to CNN exit polls), failed to produce the fabled red wave and overturn most incumbent representatives, senators and governors, seems utterly absurd to me."
Me, too.
I am generally in almost disturbingly lock-step agreement with our author's take on things, but in this case, I do not believe it is as simple as Red Team making a paltry showing here. Yes, Red Team isn't representative of anything much other than "Not Blue Team," but at this point, Blue Team has gone so far beyond Full Totalitarian Nightmare State that it seems that Red Team should have been able to win with literal piles of litter-box filth.
Something seems awry.
The leadership is compromised in one of a myriad of ways as suits each of them personally and the rest of the team has been cowered into following the party line.