Two weeks ago, I wrote: “There seems to be only one thing about which all Americans agree … that something is very wrong in our nation.”
My point then was that all the polling data has been pointing in one direction—Americans of all persuasions are not happy with what’s happening in, and the direction of, our country.
Now we see, despite all the pessimism about the state of American democracy, that it works.
Why be surprised about the blowout of the incumbent party when, for most of Joe Biden‘s presidency, the percentage of Americans saying they are satisfied with the direction of the country hovered around 20%. And when, after the early months of his presidency, Biden’s approval ratings tanked and for the remaining time, the gap between his disapproval and approval hovered between 10 to 15 percentage points.
As former Reagan speechwriter Ken Khachigian noted in The Wall Street Journal, Vice President Kamala Harris drove a stake into her candidacy when in an appearance on........