If objective conditions don’t change – particularly inflation – and if the Republicans field able candidates, the Democrats could be in for a drubbing in the midterm congressional elections in 2022. The surprisingly tight gubernatorial election in Democratic-leaning New Jersey on the same day that the Republicans eked out a victory in Virginia underscored the Democrats’ trouble. The Democrats are chronically inept at combating attacks on social issues. The Democrats may have won the congress (barely) but so far hadn’t delivered. While each ‘human infrastructure’ programme polled positively, lumping them together led to a price tag that moderate Democrats found excessive.

Source: Forbes November 11, 2021 02:01 UTC