Polls, models and markets see a Blue Tsunami today, but no matter what happens in the midterm elections, we have reached the beginning of a new era.
Putting our anxiety aside for a moment, let’s look at what’s been happening that led up to the incredible rejection of Republicans in the polls, because that sentiment is very real and it signifies something important.
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By Monday evening, growing evidence of strong early-voter participation and unexpected opportunities in traditionally Republican strongholds had experts talking about potential upsets in states like Texas and Maine. Trump has so tarnished the image of the Republican Party that even Kansas, Iowa, and Florida have been mentioned.
So it looks likely to be a Blue Tsunami.
But the real fight had already begun, and it will continue after the midterms, no matter how they turn out and no matter how hard Trump et al fight the results.
The resistance to Trump’s autocracy has solidified in the last two years. It’s also bigger than Trump; he has just exposed the bad argument in his vulgar, crass way.
The nation is consistently showing that it is ready for change. Real change, not just changing the letter behind the president’s name — but systemic change from top to bottom. A new imagining of our democracy that is not trying to fix what Trump and Republicans broke, but trying to build a new future.
A robust future for The People.
We are turning the page on the massive corruption of the Trump era into the age of rebuilding something new. It hasn’t been painless and it will continue to be costly. But the decades-long stranglehold of the rise of the right has been exposed as a bad argument that used free-market principles to critique needed social programs.
The country is changing, rejecting the long-festering lie of the Nixon-Reagan economic myth. It never trickled down, and resentment of our fellow man hasn’t gotten us anything.