Most of the nastiest, phoniest and misinformed politicians fell short in their election bids, including Kari Lake for governor of Arizona. Not sure which was more vicious...election denier Lake making light of Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul, whose skull was battered by an intruder with a hammer, or the savages in the crowd who laughed at her joke. What a complete lack of morals on all counts.
The majority of Americans reacted to the overreach of the Supreme Court, who voted against abortion rights and for voter suppression, but Clarence Thomas and his buddies have more of that draconian swill in store for us. We will continue to have to keep demonstrating forceful free speech and voting to "redeem the work of fools," as Patti Smith's "People Have the Power" so beautifully states.
So for now, some sanity has returned to the election process. The Republicans' tactic of trying to scare the nation about crime and inflation--we are coming out of a pandemic where people needed help with their rent, for God's sake, and we're aiding Ukraine to win their war against Russia--failed miserably for the GOP on November 8th.
Are the Dems not connecting with the average American? Perhaps. But David Brooks, New York Times columnist, said it best on the PBS News Hour: "Voters preferred a party out of touch to a party that was out of their minds."