Midterms 2022

So Much for the Red Wave

How could everyone have been so wrong?

Editorial rights purchased from iStock. Photo by Lan Zhang.

For the last six months, every conversation I’ve had about the future of America has been more like a chat on a suicide-prevention hotline than a conversation about whom to vote for in the midterms.

Whenever the inevitable “big red wave” came up, I felt like I had to talk someone off…