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Dems dominate every election so far. Why do people keep saying that like they don't?
The Dems lost control of the house at mid-terms, and they only have a razor-thin margin in the Senate of 51-49 if you count the 3 independents as Dems (which is fair as they caucus together).
I don't see any domination, at least on a national level.
Gerrymandering is a hell of a drug
There also hasn't been a test of it on the national level yet. The November election will be that test. Some of the little elections that have been popping up since the Supreme Court's abortion ruling have gone hard for Democrats when we might not otherwise expect it to. It still remains to be seen if that pans out on a larger scale.
The thing about gerrymandering is that there is a trap built into the math. The way it works is to give your opponent a few very safe districts (like +40 for them), and then give yourself a long list of fairly safe districts (like +15 for you). However, if the vote trends hard for your opponent, those fairly safe districts are no longer safe and you lose everything. This is a real possibility with how badly votes have gone for the GOP in those smaller elections, but we'll have to see.
If just one of Trump's criminal trials hands down a guilty verdict before the election, it becomes a likely possibility.
Oh yes of course that all makes sense, but it's also all just speculation. The Dems have not dominated yet. In more than the 3 decades I've been alive, the Dems have only had a filibuster-proof majority of Congress, plus the presidency, for a handful of months.
I've seen them win the popular vote and lose the presidency twice.
I hope the Dems do dominate and shift the Overton window left. But I think we also need to be careful about the expectations and narratives carried online. Fascists love to spread the lie that the Dems have been in control for decades and accomplished nothing. So saying Dems have dominated elections when they haven't (at least not nationally) is dangerous.
The reason it's a domination is because historically, the party in the white House loses seats in Congress during mid term elections. Did Democrats lose seats in the house? Yes, but Republicans barely gained a majority, so not a large loss.in the Senate? Democrats gained even more control which is the exact opposite direction it should have gone.
That in conjunction with abortion being a hot button issue that Democrats across the board support, and the electorate (even in conservative states) has supported as well doesn't bode well for Republicans.
Lastly, Republicans are a mess in the house which isn't good at giving reasons for the electorate continue to vote for you.
We'll see how things go though.
They don't dominate enough to overcome the structural advantages Republicans have due to our fucked-up quasi-democratic system designed at a time when everyone assumed state and local issues would be far more important than ideology.