Why Voters Turned Against MAGA

It has been nearly twenty years since the United States last experienced a wave election. Contemporary hyperpartisanship suggested that big shifts in the House and Senate were a thing of the past, the detritus of a bygone era of median voters, candidate-centered campaigns, and competitive electoral districts. Tuesday’s elections proved that big waves are still possible. NBC News projects that Democrats will take 258 seats in the House and perhaps fifty-six seats in the Senate. This would be the biggest partisan shift in the Senate since 2014 and the biggest in the House since 2010. The headlines write themselves. Democrats won every statewide election in Texas, their first US Senate election in South Carolina since 1998, their first trifecta (governor, state house, and state senate) in Pennsylvania since 1993, and their first Senate seat in Kansas since the Great Depression.

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