How Decades of US ‘Forever War’ Led to the Republicans’ Midterm Losses
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How decades of US ‘forever war’ led to the Republicans’ midterm losses
Hassen Mrad/ShutterstockAfter the 1991 Gulf War, Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq, declared “dignified victory” despite a military defeat. He had survived the invasion, while his adversary George HW Bush was facing a recession at home. Bush would go on to lose the 1992 elections to Bill Clinton, who swept to victory with the slogan: “It’s the economy, stupid”. Even with Iraq’s armed forces devastated, Saddam was able to frame the mil…
In the days following the announcement of the results, a number of analysts and even American political figures have considered the war with Iran and its consequences to be among the factors contributing to the Republicans' defeat.
Analysis: ‘Hitting on all cylinders’: How Republicans failed to sell the economic boom
The job market is “hitting on all cylinders,” economists and economic data show, but that story struggled to break through in a midterm campaign dominated by the war with Iran. A string of strong economic reports this fall, including an October jobs number nearly triple what economists expected, points to a robust U.S. economy. But […]
According to Holman Jenkins, the Republicans' electoral defeat was less a result of rising fuel prices than a collapse in the confidence of voters who had brought Trump to power on the promise of avoiding foreign wars. The Iran war, without an immediate threat to the United States and without broad popular support, exposed the contradiction between his promises and his performance. Now that Democrats have control of Congress, they can increase p…
MAGA and Republicans were willing to forgive Trump a lot (his style, his methods) until he completely went against the promises he had made earlier.
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