sbilik

“Unprecedented!” “It’s a tsunami!” Good grief, people. What happened yesterday — the losses the Republicans experienced — is not only NOT “unprecedented”… it’s *normal* and *expected*. A few facts, from modern history, to put things in perspective: - Since 1900, during mid-term elections, the party in control of the White House loses seats in the House and Senate 87% of the time (27 out of 31 mid-terms). - Yesterday’s mid-term doesn’t even make the “Top 5” list, since 1900, of seat losses for the party in control of the White House. In fact, it is unlikely that this election, when the dust settles, will even make the top 10. - That includes the Democrat loss of 64 seats in 2010, and the Republican loss of 42 seats in 2018. Both of which are much larger than yesterday’s seat loss. - This election also wasn’t the biggest surge of Socialism or Communism within the USA since 1900 — the 1910s were filled with such examples, with openly Socialist politicians like Berger and London. Was yesterday an impactful and noteworthy loss for Republicans? Absolutely. Was the loss of seats “unprecedented”? Not even a little. In fact it would have been a statistical anomaly if it hadn’t happened. This election, when you look at the numbers, was *astoundingly* normal.