Will the Midterm Elections End the Progressive Agenda?
Commentary
Forecasts of a Red Wave with next week’s election suggest not just a referendum on Joe Biden’s first two years as president, but also a judgment of the progressive ideas driving Democratic Party policy. We were in a similar situation with the 2016 vote, even if most Americans didn’t know it at the time.
Had Hillary Clinton won as expected, a faction that constitutes a small but vocal minority would have had nearly two decades to consolidate its control over the political process. Traditional conservatives like to credit themselves as partisans who “stand athwart the world yelling stop,” but it took an unorthodox Republican candidate willing to do more than talk to make it happen….