"Here’s how it went: A popular vote loss with a fluke electoral college win (2016); a midterm blowout loss that cost his party the House (2018); an emphatic reelection loss (2020); a general election win by one of the closest margins in history (2024); then finally, the worst midterm loss in half a century, costing his party both houses of Congress (2026). That adds up to a record of 1-5 or 2-3, depending on how you want to score it." https://t.co/9iPvkeYNYe
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 10, 2026
"Here’s how it went: A popular vote loss with a fluke electoral college win (2016); a midterm blowout loss that cost his party the House (2018); an emphatic reelection loss (2020); a general election win by one of the closest margins in history (2024); then finally, the worst midterm loss in half a century, costing his party both houses of Congress (2026). That adds up to a record of 1-5 or 2-3, depending on how you want to score it."A sound summation which, before the first Tuesday in November of 2026, could have been grounds for despair. But after Trump I and Covid, Biden (more a caretaker, but he did exceedingly well with the problems Trump left, and could not have done better in handling them), then Trump II, this time with tariffs, Epstein, a disastrously stupid and unnecessary war, and corruption that makes historians forget the Taft administration, we now have a Muslim M.D. in the Senate eloquently and persuasively talking about Medicare for All; a Senator from Texas (!) who talked about “top v. bottom” rather than “us v. them” (pure Texas populism, IOW), and a majority in both houses that may actually do things neither Hillary nor Kamala would have tried.
So our national time in the wilderness may start paying dividends.
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