Waltz across Texas, dead in Ohio, and Mississippi Goddamn: Examining the debris from the US midterms

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It was a result so conclusive that even Donald Trump had to accept it. The post Waltz across Texas, dead in Ohio, and Mississippi Goddamn: Examining the debris from the US…

There’s one problem with depicting your opponents as profoundly dangerous trans-jihadi communists who will make gender reassignment and abortions compulsory (all literally Republican descriptions of Democrat candidates in the lead-up to the 2026 midterm elections). What if people vote for them anyway? Not tentatively, but overwhelmingly.

Much of the coverage leading up to this week — including in Crikey — had a faintly disbelieving air. The dominance Donald Trump has exerted over US politics has looked finished, irretrievable, so many times before. And yet he always came back.

And so it proved. The Democrats are on track for a stonking majority in the House, but more importantly have flipped seven seats to take control of the Senate. At the time of writing, the Democrats lead close races in Alaska and Mississippi.

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