Louisiana Voice

“This is what happens when a political party allows itself to be hollowed out and wholly defined by one man. When the public sours on that man, the party falls right along with him.”

–Michelle Cottle

“Antipathy toward the president trumped everything else. But for Democrats, winning was the easy part. Memories of this election cycle will be shaped by what Democrats do with their power.”

–Binyamin Appelbaum

“MAGA will end one day. The election results last night suggest that it could be sooner rather than later. Texas elected a Democratic governor. Georgia elected a Black female governor. North Carolina flipped innumerable contested races blue. This repudiation of Trump’s small, racist, profoundly unserious vision of America needed to win decisively. And it did.”

–Tressie McMillan Cottom

The president wasted billions on foreign wars and waged a brutal assault on immigrants here at home. On Tuesday, voters woke up from the delusion that Trump’s an ally of working people.”

–Jean Guerrero

“You can’t lie to people about the price of a gallon of gas or the price of a pound of ground beef or the price of a ton of fertilizer. Tariffs and the lunatic war on Iran have clobbered ordinary people while Trump and his billionaire cronies have lined their pockets.”

–Lydia Polgreen

(Each of the above quotes are from The New York Times columnists)

“As it turns out, not everything has a price tag. Elon Musk spent nearly $190m blanketing the state with ads against James Talarico. But his attempts to depict Talarico as an unhinged extremist wasn’t enough to convince a majority of Texans to vote for Ken Paxton. A similar story played out across the country. Donald Trump deployed hundreds of millions of dollars through Maga Inc. to boost candidates such as Darline Graham in South Carolina, Mike Rogers in Michigan, and Michael Whatley in North Carolina.

“It didn’t work.”

–Judd Legum, founder and author of Popular Information

“One of the big stories of the midterms is that the south is no longer solid Republican territory. The southern strategy has a term limit, and the region’s diversity is now paying political dividends for the Democrats.”

–Charles Blow, author, political analyst and contributing writer to The Guardian

(Charles Blow is a graduate of Grambling State University)

“Tuesday night – almost exactly 10 years after he won the presidency in an upset victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016 – the Trump era effectively came to an end. Now, with a Senate majority, Democrats will be able to investigate the president and his cabinet members, draw public attention to their own agenda items, assert Congress’s constitutional prerogatives, and block Republican judicial appointments.”

–Moira Donegan, The Guardian

“Elon Musk angrily put Ken Paxton on eBay. The billionaire was hoping to recoup some of his $190 million purchase of Paxton, but in the Texan’s first hours on eBay the bidding for him stalled at six dollars.”

–Andy Borowitz and Paul Karasik