What can we learn from the 2025 elections?

The Democrats did even better than expected in the 2025 elections, winning by wider margins, and in more elections than either side predicted. It was a total wipeout for the Republicans. And not just in blue states either. The Democrats took seats and positions in Mississippi and Georgia. Virginia is a purple state, and the Democrats won the governorship and Attorney General's positions there, despite a vicious attack campaign against them by Trump and the Republicans, and took a super-majority in the Virginia Senate, effectively giving them total control of the Virginia government. They took a Supreme Court position in Pennsylvania, and of course the Democrats defeated the Trump endorsed candidate for governor of New Jersey, giving the Democrats control of the New Jersey governorship three elections in a row, for the first time since 1961. And, last but not least, the Democrats elected a socialist Muslim in New York City, to the absolute horror of Donald Trump and his MAGA backers, in what was a clear slap in the face to them. Why was this, exactly? What do these elections tell us? Obviously, the American electorate are deeply unhappy with Donald Trump's authoritarian tendencies. Donald Trump thinks he is the anointed King of America, and Americans disagree. The assaults on and kidnappings of productive, hard-working immigrants by racist ICE agents, supported by racist Donald Trump and the racist MAGA movement are driving most Americans to a frenzy of anger against the federal government, and most elements of federal law enforcement. The murders of sailors on the high seas who Trump presumes to be drug traffickers by the US military are an horrific affront to all international law, and a war crime, for which everyone involved must be held accountable. Trump's intentions to take direct military action against Panama, Greenland Venezuela, Columbia, Mexico and Nigeria suggest imperialistic tendencies that we haven't seen since Adolf Hitler quite literally tried to take over the world in 1939. Trump's gleeful use of the military to intimidate and control the populations of any state or city he doesn't like in the US, have antagonized virtually everyone who isn't MAGA, and that's the vast majority of Americans. His performance on the economy has been mediocre. The economy is being hobbled by Trump's ridiculous obsession with tariffs, and now by his inability to function with the Congress, leading to the longest government shutdown in American history. The economy is starting to collapse even as we speak from Trump's total economic incompetence. The entire US air space of the US is about to become unworkable for lack of qualified air traffic controllers, they can't be paid. The entire US military is about to go without paychecks for the first time since the American Revolutionary War, 250 years ago, before America was even a nation. The full implications of these events is unclear, this has never happened before, but, they are massive. In any case, the massive disparities of wealth are making it impossible for the vast majority of Americans to fully participate in the economy, as the nation is strangled by the super-rich, and their petty whims. Obviously, we need higher taxes on the rich, and Donald Trump will never tolerate this, being one of their members. In particular, what was notable in the 2025 elections, was that the Democrats, for the first time in a dozen years or more, actually substantially outperformed the polls. This may be because attempts to compensate for errors in the recent past have gone too far, and, now, Democratic support is being substantially underestimated by the pollsters. That would be very, very bad news for the Republicans, suggesting a massive Democratic wave, that could sweep the Democratics to a great victory in the mid-terms next year, and lead to Trump's impeachment, removal, and imprisonment.