Both US parties in disarray after stunning elections
Ramin Mazaheri
Press TV, Chicago
Both mainstream parties in the United States have been profoundly shaken by the election results from November 3rd.
While the Democrats may prevail in the still-disputed presidential election, their so-called “Blue Wave” has been universally described as an “abject disaster”. Despite unprecedented mainstream media support, widespread leftist-based protests and record fund-raising they failed to retake the Senate, lost seats in the House, lost one governorship and failed to flip a single state legislature.
Because this is a census year Republicans will control drawing up most of the decade’s new electoral maps, causing many to say the election was a disastrous setback for progressive causes.
Massive infighting among the party elite is being reported. Older and moderate Democrats blame newly-popular progressive causes for the losses, but the Democratic Socialists of America - the left-wing of the Democratic Party - won 70% of the races and ballot initiatives they endorsed.
The election results were widely expected to be a repudiation of so-called “Trumpism”, but analysts say they actually cemented the unprecedented political uprising unexpectedly led by Donald Trump. So-called “Trumpian Republicans” are now expected to reshape the conservative party.
There seems to be unanimous agreement that regardless of the final outcome of the presidential election Trump and his family will have increased, not decreased, control over the Republican Party.
A pre-election poll asked Republicans and Republican-leaning independents if they considered themselves a supporter of Trump or a supporter of the Republican Party - 60% picked Trump.
Which ever presidential candidate is eventually inaugurated, it seems certain that America has undergone a dramatic political shift which very few people predicted and which many are struggling to understand and accept.
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