America’s Rejection of Trump and the GOP Was Broad and Deep
Foreign Policy · David Ignatius ·
The president’s hold on national politics finally gave way Tuesday.
The president’s hold on national politics finally gave way Tuesday.
Mathematics has a branch called “catastrophe theory,” which analyzes how mounting pressure can lead to a sudden break in a structure that had once looked solid. On Election Day, the rupture suffered by President Donald Trump’s GOP was a real-life demonstration of that process of collapse.
Trump suffered a decisive rebuke. The president’s hold on national politics had seemed intact, despite his erratic policies and declining popularity—until Tuesday, when GOP support crumbled in many states and congressional districts where it had surged just two years ago. Trump retains his hardcore MAGA base, but on Tuesday moderate GOP and independent voters who had backed Trump in 2024 abandoned the GOP to either vote for Democrats or stay home.
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