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If Democrats win big, will they learn the right lessons from their victory? | Jan-Werner Mueller
No election outcome ever interprets itself. So how will Democrats interpret these results once they are known?
Whichever metaphor one prefers – landslide, earthquake, wave – it seems increasingly like the Democrats can expect a significant victory in the midterms.
As the joke goes, every gas station display of prices has become an ad for Democrats; what’s more, some of them have managed to connect the relatively abstract issue of corruption to the daily misery of many Americans.
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Jan-Werner Müller · Mon, Oct 26, 2026, 3:00 AM
US news | The Guardian
No election outcome ever interprets itself. So how will Democrats interpret these results once they are known?
Whichever metaphor one prefers – landslide, earthquake, wave – it seems increasingly like the Democrats can expect a significant victory in the midterms.
As the joke goes, every gas station display of prices has become an ad for Democrats; what’s more, some of them have managed to connect the relatively abstract issue of corruption to the daily misery of many Americans.
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