The American Electoral Landslide: Democrats Rediscover God and Guys

The US Democratic Party literally transformed the American political landscape overnight. With their astonishing sweep of the November 3 elections for Congress and hundreds of state and local offices, Democrats did more than rout their Republican rivals and vaporize the aura of impunity that for a decade enveloped President Donald Trump. In a stunning reversal of political precedent, Democrats won dozens of elections in small towns and rural areas scattered across the American South and Midwest, communities where voters had turned their back on the party for decades. Democrats did this by fielding a nationwide slate of candidates who did not look or talk like any in recent memory. Gone (or well camouflaged) were the patrician lawyers and elite Ivy League graduates.

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