Donald Trump was destroyed in the midterms. It could take a decade to sort through the wreckage
Toronto Star · Bruce Arthur ·
The day after America rejected almost everything he touched, U.S. President Donald Trump held an event about the ballroom he's building on the ruins of the East Wing of the White House. He was vaguely subdued, saying things almost by rote in his rasp, as if he was speaking to himself. Given the context, Trump almost seemed to be wandering around in his own afterlife.
The day after America rejected almost everything he touched, U.S. President Donald Trump held an event about the ballroom he’s building on the ruins of the East Wing of the White House. He was vaguely subdued, saying things almost by rote in his rasp, as if he was speaking to himself. Given the context, Trump almost seemed to be wandering around in his own afterlife.
Maybe he was. Trump was destroyed on Tuesday night. Not as a person, or as a malignant force in American life, of course; he could still order a nuke, invade Canada, steal state secrets and sell them off the back of a truck. He will get more desperate, as the walls close in. The nightmare isn’t done.
But on Tuesday night the American electorate rebelled. Midterms often punish the ruling party, but this was a meteor. Democrats won the House and the Senate by commanding margins; they now control a majority of the governors’ chairs, which encompass three quarters of the population; they won Senate seats in Kansas and South Carolina and maybe Alaska and Mississippi. Elon Musk spent nearly a quarter of a billion in Texas and Texas elected Democrats to statewide offices — to almost every available statewide office — after not doing so in any race since 1994.
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