Ring of Fire: Midterm Losses a Teachable Moment For Progressives [View all]

[GoLeft TV]

Democrats are hanging their heads after this past week’s midterm elections, and they should. There shouldn’t have been any reason for the Democratic Party to lose ground in this election, but they did. In some races, they were defeated by candidates who make Forrest Gump look like a Rhodes Scholar. The Democratic Party was defeated by anti-science, anti-LGBT, anti-women, anti-minority, and anti-government candidates in races all over the country.

The next two years are looking pretty bleak at this point.

Or are they? Would things be any different if the Democrats had won a majority in both Houses of Congress?

Full text at Ring of Fire.