Okay hear me out. I have been meticulously following the midterm elections and one thing that stood out to me this time is how soundly and emphatically people have rejected the Trump mandate. Dems won in Kansas, SC, Maine, frickin Texas, states which two years ago overwhelmingly voted for Trump. He promised affordability and no more wars and when he delivered the opposite of that, people booted this govt’s ass out of both chambers. No amount of hate, transgender rhetoric, fear mongering (millions being poured into such ads) could save them. Sure there was the Iran war and tariffs but people genuinely believed that he had lost touch with the working class. Again the same working class which went full MAGA in 2024.

Now let’s look at our own political state. In 2014 people unequivocally rejected the Congress mandate, and you would have been stupid not to. Modi galvanised his base over issues such as corruption, weak rupee, failing economy.…