OPINION: A rebuke of MAGA is not an endorsement of Democrats

President Donald Trump (R) told America to pretend as if he were on the ballot — and, oh boy, did voters oblige. To describe this week's election as a "blue wave" understates the degree to which Democrats benefited from the chaos of Trump's return to the White House. Texas going blue? Nevada's deep-red 2nd Congressional District being handed to a Democrat? Those aren't results that come solely from voters being irritated with a foreign war or reeling from higher prices on consumer goods. Instead, those results demonstrate a widespread repudiation of what the GOP has come to represent during Trump's tenure. Sure, war, tariffs, inflation and the incessant grifting of MAGA's political class aren't terribly popular among voters, but this election was about more than a few mere policy blunders or poor candidate quality.

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