Making History Does Not Mean Changing It

Like many on campus and across the country, I entered November in a dismal mood. After two years of watching America’s economy, institutions and global prestige melt away like a premature snowfall, I was expecting Democrats to phone it in like they had two years ago when Donald Trump stormed back into power on the promise of deregulated dictatorship. Even as the second term proved cataclysmic domestically and abroad, the Democratic Party seemed to be as uninspired as ever. While moderates moved to squash progressives like Zohran Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed, the world’s richest man embarked on a savage spending spree for Trump’s hand-picked candidates and the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act to enable Republican gerrymandering. Most polling favored Democrats, but so they had last time. My friends and I knew that Republicans had proven too disastrous to keep the House, but disagreed with our Senate predictions.

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