What Are Progressives Thinking About All This?

In US politics, when you have a president from a party elected at the first midterm election after that is almost always what they call a thermostatic reaction against the president's party. In American history with only one or two exceptions, like George Bush writing the Iraq War kind of effect defied it. "It was just predictable just along those lines that Democrats were going to get their asses kicked," says Julian Zelizer.