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.

But, in the end, no election outcome ever interprets itself; Democrats should not rest content with the conclusion that only what moderate leaders (and consultants) like to call kitchen table issues really mattered.

They have a historic opportunity to dislodge the image of the Republicans as the party of national security and the party best trusted with the economy.

After 2024, Republicans massively benefited from elite actors – Silicon Valley oligarchs, no less than many journalists – reading a globally important “ vibe shift ” into the presidential election outcome; we now know that what political scientists politely call…