Jim Crawford: Lessons for GOP from midterms

Mistakes were made. Republicans and President Trump pretty seriously misjudged the mood of America this year, as the mid-term election results stunned even encouraged Democrats with the size and scope of the victory. To be fair, most midterms have recently cost the majority party seats in the election. That much is true. But what exit polls report is that voters of all political stripes were just mad as hell and were not going to take it anymore. Enough with starting wars for no reason, enough with tariffs that seemed more designed to anger our allies and trading partners than to balance free and fair trade; enough with the thuggish behavior of Trump’s private army, ICE. Enough with an administration that seemed to purposefully ignore our laws in favor of hundreds of executive orders; enough of a presidential rhetoric that served solely to divide Americans and our friends around the globe.

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