The American people rejected radical Socialism on Tuesday

While some House and Senate races are still being decided, it’s already clear there’s no mandate for the policies the far-left dreamed of passing in 2021. 

Democrats were banking on a “blue wave” that would give them a majority in the Senate and a larger majority in the House. It didn’t happen. This takes a lot of policies off the far-left wish list, from packing the Supreme Court, to passing the Green New Deal, to putting identity politics into federal law. While socialism is still rising on the left, it’s no closer to seizing the reins of power.

Still, there was one clear loser in last night’s election: identity politics.

Recall that the summer of 2020 was the summer of wokeness. Everyone was supposedly now consumed with the nation’s systemic racism. Everyone was a rioter. The only cause was anti-colonialism. Nothing else mattered. Right?

No? Most people ignored this narrative about American life.

And, in fact, it turns out that the very voters being targeted most heavily by this scare campaign about pervasive, ubiquitous white supremacism, specifically nonwhite voters, were not persuaded to support Democrats in larger numbers. Instead, those voters increased their support for Trump over 2016 levels. In fact, if he wins, he almost certainly owes his victory to gains among black and Hispanic voters.

This welcome news extended to the state level, too — we’ll see more of that in the coming days. In the meantime, the message from the American people is clear: we don’t want what the far-left is selling, which is why we didn’t buy it on Election Day.