.benwallacewells on five potential takeaways from the 2022 midterm elections—and how they could shape American politics in the years to come.
on Tuesday will be decided in quantitative terms: Democrats need to just about sweep the tossup seats in the House to keep control of it—which seems very unlikely, and probably need to win three of the four most closely contested Senate races to retain a majority in the upper chamber. But, as the past six years have demonstrated, partisan politics is always evolving, developing new fixations and themes.
Like so much with the Biden-era Democrats, this is born of pragmatism: they have the narrowest of majorities, and their fear of what will happen to politics should Republicans regain power is deep. One big question for the Democrats on Tuesday is whether this centrist retrenchment—in which they cast themselves as the practical establishment and the Republicans as the wild-eyed revolutionaries—will work if Trump is not on the ballot.
The place to look for tidal changes in U.S. politics—those that have little to do with personality—is in the House of Representatives, whose members are low-profile enough that in elections they often become proxies for the general opinion of their parties.
, I would have probably said that one thing at stake in the vote was whether the Trump era was finally over. But I can’t see any way that Tuesday’s election will put an end to Trumpism. There are simply so many Republicans who sound like him and defend him, and many of them are young and poised for victory. TheQuantitatively, it doesn’t look like this election will be a historic partisan disaster for the Democrats.
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