While the question of “who controls” the U.S. Senate will not be fully resolved until December, nonetheless it is already clear that the “Red Wave” shift to Republican takeover did not occur in the 2022 “midterm” election, in which all members of the House and one-third (35 seats) of the Senate were up for election, as well as many governors and local elections. In fact, according to insiders in the Republican camp, the failure of the Trump circles to bring this about was their own fault: polarizing the country into Left vs. Right single-issue camps, rather than fighting out the most urgent existential issues facing the nation and mankind overall drove voters, in a large turnout, to reject them even if they didn’t like the Biden Administration.
Outside of the campaigns of Diane Sare and Joel Dejean, and a maverick like Geoff Young, none of the candidates in this election focused the electorate on the danger of nuclear war, nor on the pathway of solution to that reality, by fighting for a just economic reorganization of the world financial system in cooperation with China, Russia and India.