Really good video on Tuesday’s election by Jamelle Bouie of the New York Times. Bouie points to the popular rejection of Trump’s attempt at an authoritarian takeover in the U.S. but I don’t think he gives enough credit to Democratic voters who stood up to Trump with resistance to ICE in LA, Chicago, and Minneapolis, the No King’s Rallies, and constant agitation to Democratic politicians to fight harder than they have been. The whole Democratic voting coalition refused to give an inch on Trump and that was the anchor of both the general resistance and the 2026 political campaigns across the country. Trump’s enormous contempt for Hispanics, farmers, young men and other 2024 constituencies led these groups to consider alternatives and Democratic voters drove the left (broadly considered) into becoming a plausible alternative.
