U.S. Democracy Is Back—Sort of

Foreign Policy · Michael Hirsh · 2026-11-04 14:18 UTC

Trump suffered a major rebuke, but it’s going to be a brutal two years.

Trump suffered a major rebuke, but it’s going to be a brutal two years.

The message of the 2026 midterm elections is decidedly in: U.S. democracy is not dead, not by a long shot.

There is, at long last, the glimmer of a beginning to the end of President Donald Trump’s decade-long dominance of national politics. Most of all, the 2028 presidential race—which effectively begins today—is now up in the air. So is the ultimate direction of the country’s international role, which will be decided by that election.

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