The 2026 midterms are now history, and clearly, the political pendulum has swung. From a Republican perspective, a wrecking ball would be a more apt metaphor. As of January 2027, Republicans will no longer be the majority party, and it isn’t even close. Just a glance at the state electoral map and the composition of the U.S. Congress will indicate that America isn’t even purple anymore; it’s deep blue. The only populous state that stayed red was Florida, and only barely. Democrats ran the table in Texas, and at least for now, Texas is California.
As for California, the state remains more than ever a case study in how one political party can dominate while the opposition party can die. In 2026, Democrats did everything right in California. Unlike the Texas GOP, supposedly dominant in that supposedly red state, California’s redistricting yielded the planned result. There was no California equivalent of the Rio Grande Valley, where Texas GOP “strategists” recklessly thought that narrow GOP victories in 2024 heralded a permanent realignment.
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