David Firestone: “The clichéd term for what happened last night is ‘wave election,’ but if natural phenomena are going to be evoked, the more accurate expression is ‘tornado election:’ widespread destruction in weird, jagged patterns that are often difficult to explain when it’s over.”
“When a force that powerful is fueled by anger rather than careful analysis, it produces results that can seem irrational. More than a third of people voting for a Republican House candidate said they were unhappy or even angry at the Republican leaders in Congress, according to exit polls, but they did so anyway, producing a House that is even more right-wing than the current one.”
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