Nov. 3 Joins Jan. 6 as Big Days in U.S. History

Adequate coverage of the Nov. 3, 2026, midterm election in the U.S. this week calls for more focus on history books than the individual vote counts, because the outcome was so overwhelming that simply to call them historic seems trite. This was an election like no other in the 250 year history of the United States and will be remembered as such. It was not about any particular candidate so much as a very loud affirmation of voters across the U.S. of what kind of people we are, what we aspire to be, and what we are not, especially the latter. The Trump MAGA movement was crushed in the course of a single day as the nation’s collective reaction to a decade of the most egregious lying, abuse and corruption.

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