The future belongs to the Democrats

Wednesday morning last week, millions of Americans awakened with a sense that our politics might finally settle down.
They were mistaken.
There was ample reason to believe that President Trump’s chaotic presidency would finally be reined in. The day before, Election Day, 114 million Americans went to the polls – record turnout for a midterm election – and delivered the House of Representatives to Democrats with a 7 percent margin. Democrats also picked up governorships and state legislatures, and received about 13 million more votes than Republicans in the Senate; only the vagaries of the political map allowed Republicans to pick up a seat or two.
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