Compared with incumbent governments elsewhere in the world, Democrats' losses were modest.
That's post-election copium. That was hardly mentioned at all before the election. And why would it be? The US never compares itself seriously to other countries.
And in the House, they gained a seat, leaving the GOP with the second-smallest majority in history.
Emphasis his.
"There could have been a red wave in the states, and there wasn't," Heather Williams, the president of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, told me. "I genuinely see this election as defying odds."
Defying the odds? Is that a punchline?
[Senator Chris Murphy] believes that Democrats should respond by embracing economic populism and welcoming people who have conservative views on cultural issues such as guns, immigration, and the environment. Some of the party's successes from last month agree with him.
That's post-election copium. That was hardly mentioned at all before the election. And why would it be? The US never compares itself seriously to other countries.
Emphasis his.
Defying the odds? Is that a punchline?
Ah, lurch more to the right!