Can America ever return to pre-Trump politics?

Al Jazeera · John Feehery · 2026-11-06 07:51 UTC

The US midterms were a rejection of Trump’s politics of division, but his legacy may be impossible to undo.

The US midterms were a rejection of Donald Trump’s politics of division, but his legacy may be impossible to undo.

“I think it’s safe to say that we are tired of being pitted against each other. We are tired of being told to hate each other. It has been 10 years of this kind of politics. Politics as blood sport. Politics as trolling and owning. Politics as professional wrestling. It tears families apart. It ends friendships, and it leaves us all feeling terrible all the time.”

So said Senator-elect James Talarico in his victory speech on election night after he won the first United States Senate seat in Texas for the Democratic Party in almost 40 years.

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