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2026 Midterms: Blue wave or anti-establishment backlash?

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2026 Midterms: Blue wave or anti-establishment backlash?

The midterms are over, and Democrats have scored a decisive victory, exceeding even their most optimistic expectations.

But does this result signal a country turning blue – or a country simply fed up with the status quo?

And how much of this was a rejection of a system, rather than an endorsement of the Democratic Party?