Tuesday, November 10, 2026
What did NOT happen one week ago
For Democrats like me, there is so much that happened in the mid-terms that make us happy that perhaps we have not realized what didn't happen. I'm thinking of two things in particulat:
1. There was a real fear that the Trump administration would deploy ICE agents or others to intimidate voters and depress the vote in immigrant-heavy areas. There is no evidence that happened, at least at any kind of meaningful scale.
2. Some people (well, me) worried that the tech bros like Elon Musk had some way up their sleeve to manipulate the vote. But the results show that to have been a false concern. If Elon Musk could manipulate the vote, I can't believe we would have had a Republican wipeout in Texas, and a huge 12-point victory by the principal target of his hundreds of millions in spending, James Talarico.
