Blue Wave, Green Tide: Politics in an Age of Liquidity

We are living through one of those curious and extremely rare moments in political history that challenge all the formerly respected rules of political behavior. As has become tradition, it concerns the entire world but has its origin in a single nation: the United States. Many today attribute it to a single person: twice-elected President Donald Trump, now officially recast as the world’s most powerful lame duck. But they’re wrong. Trump is just the icing on a fully baked cake, itself a fat piece of pastry that has been in the oven for decades. Some would say two and a half centuries. The headlines after Tuesday’s midterm elections suggest that US political history in the second quarter of the 21st century will now be flowing in a new direction. The dominant metaphor was liquid, if not plain watery.

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