Politics Today Is the End of the World as We Know It Donald Trump is no longer the master of America First and the GOP. I’ve been following politics in some form or other since the Clinton administration (imagine my parents’ discomfort on being asked what “the Lewinsky scandal” was after some poorly supervised family viewing of PBS News Hour ), and it’s safe to say that midterm elections don’t tend to leave much of an impression.
Even the big ones—the 2006 GOP massacre, the 2010 Tea Party rebellion—fade pretty quickly from mind, not to mention their characters. (When’s the last time you thought about Kevin Yoder?) Today’s elections are different. I have said on the tee vee and elsewhere that these midterms don’t matter.
As regards actual governance and policy, I still believe that. The Republicans have no legislative agenda to speak of; the SAVE Act is still vaguely floating around as a kind of fetish object, but, strange to say, nobody really seems to be talking about it anymore.
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