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The Case for a Not-Awful Election for Democrats

The Case for a Not-Awful Election for Democrats
The Case for a Not-Awful Election for Democrats


Susan Glasser: “The conventional wisdom in Washington would indicate that the Democrats are all but certain to lose the House in 2022, and very likely the Senate, too. The yearlong collapse in Joe Biden’s approval ratings has been seen as a virtual guarantee of this outcome. Biden has become the most politically unpopular leader at this point in a Presidency since the advent of modern polling—even more unpopular than Trump was during the “blue wave” election of 2018. That and a worst-in-four-decades inflation outbreak on Biden’s watch have convinced almost all political observers that the elections this fall are a sure thing for Republicans.”

“But, over the summer, a new school of what might be called “Trumptimism” has taken hold among some Democratic strategists and independent analysts. In the mess of our current politics, they discern a case for optimism—history-defying, experience-flouting optimism that maybe things won’t work out so badly after all in November.”

Said Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg: “In the age of Trump, nothing is normal. Nothing is following traditional physics and rules, so why would this midterm?”

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