Being braced for the mid-terms

3rd November 2026 Recording a constitutional and political moment * Today in the United States are the mid-term elections. Nobody can predict the results of these elections with any certainty, and the ‘margin-of-error’ of the polls mean that a wide range of results are possible. But by tomorrow, and so on, as the results become more clear, many people will take the results to affirm whatever political views they already have. * This post sets out some thoughts on the eve of the results, just to capture a point of time – a postcard in a way, from an extraordinary political and constitutional moment. And it is an ‘extraordinary’ moment – the fact that certain things have become commonplace and even routine, does not make them normal or acceptable. What Trump and his supporters have done and are doing to the United States polity is not, and should never be, normal and acceptable. And the key here is not so much the cruelty and the dangerous things they do, but the underlying attitude: a…

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