From a New York Times discussion titled “We May Have Reached the Limit of Crazy That Will Be Tolerated”:

Frank Bruni, a contributing Opinion writer, hosted a written online conversation with Jonathan Last, the editor of The Bulwark, and Mallory McMorrow, a Democratic state senator from Michigan, to discuss midterm results and the future of Americans politics.

Frank Bruni: Jonathan, Mallory, I sit here in a state of mild shock, or at least significant surprise. Amid serious inflation, with a Democratic president whose approval ratings are no one’s envy, there was no red wave — nothing like what swept over the midterms after the first two years in the presidencies of Donald Trump and Barack Obama. There was more like an itty-bitty, pale red undulation. To what main factors do you chalk that up?