The 2026 midterms show that economic concerns have overtaken anti-CRT, DEI and “woke” culture-war politics, though the divisions they created remain deeply embedded in American society.
The midterm elections have placed the first openly gay senator and the first Muslim senator in the Senate, while also demonstrating a socialist advance and revealing the waning mobilization power of causes like abortion rights and transphobia.
Culture wars. Donald Trump arrived at the White House championing the fight against woke culture every day. And he has continued to do so ever since. One of his key political focuses has been dismantling a…