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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Jan-Werner Müller

If Democrats win big, will they learn the right lessons from their victory?

Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed speaks during the debate on 21 October.
Democratic candidate for Michigan’s Senate seat Abdul El-Sayed. ‘As the joke goes, every gas station display of prices has become an ad for Democrats.’ Photograph: Robin Buckson/Detroit News/AP

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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