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SOME THOUGHTS ON THE US 2026 MID TERM ELECTIONS
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In mixture of relief and exhilaration, these parodical baseball caps aim to recount the near miracle that unfolded on November 3rd/4th.
The US 2026 Mid Term Elections restored significant belief in the scope and power of democracy, when voters of all natural affiliations collaborate to hold a rogue administration that gained power with the false promises and fake principles typical of simplistic populism. Every state in the union rebelled to leave nobody in doubt that what has happened to the federation these past two years is not acceptable.
It started in the US with the pioneering, unlikely election of Zohran Mamdani as New York’s first ever Muslim mayor, who (to borrow a quote) faced down the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune by telling the electorate unvarnished home truths in his campaign that made some of them uncomfortable.
That Mamdani succeeded against all odds gave all right thinking people of all parties and political persuasions energy and confidence to gear up for these Mid Terms. It will hopefully end with Hawaii remaining blue and the last two final battleground states (Mississippi and Alaska) also swinging and turning blue, in the circumstances of this election cycle, giving US Democrats optimum control of Congress, with leadership and significant majorities in both House and Senate. No stiffer rebuke can an electorate give an administration than for them to be selfless, sensible and determined to ensure that there were huge, undeniable swings in every part of every state in the union. It was a salutary irony that, so complete was the scale and margin of victory, that not a peep was heard from ‘stop the steal’ election deniers.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had also recently done his bit to hold unprincipled populism in check by retaining his presidency for a second term against stiff odds in Brazil, defeating proto-typically dishonest populist . Similar things happened in the unseating of -supporting populists Viktor Orbán in Hungary and Aleksandar Vučić in Sebia. In each case, young electors rebelled and organised on social media to repair their subverted, damaged countries, societies and economies. Perhaps the seeds were sown in n recent years, as youth movements in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh were seen to succeed in forcing greedy, long-serving despots from office. More recently, disparaged youths forced changes in policy and government personnel in an ongoing protest against yet another long-serving, divisive, tribal, xenophobic populist government, that of Narendra Modi in India, which appears to have long abandoned the cohesive legacy of the great Mahatma Ghandi. It’s no coincidence that both Bolsonaros, Orbán, Vučić and Modi are all close allies of the current discredited populist US president. ‘s and Ukraine’s impossibly brave, stubborn refusal to blink in the face of murderous Russian invasion and aggression and attempted coercion to concede by some in the current US administration, must have been an inspiration to many on the right side of history.
We have all now seen what happens when an electorate is apathetic enough to let the worst happen, aided and abetted by opportunistic charlatan acolytes seeking access to power for themselves – 6 years of the utter decimation of the US’s global reputation, the rule of law diluted by unfettered ideology, alliances fractured, bonds broken, trust diminished. The wealthiest, most powerful, most advanced nation in the history of humankind acting out a real life version of William Golding’s Lord of The Flies, to the astonishment of the world. The seminal novel’s pre-pubescent protagonists, washed up alone on an uninhabited island armed only with the scant wisdom of children, seek to organise and govern themselves. However, they quickly fail to maintain stability and inevitably descend into chaos, recrimination, conflict and bloody violence. Civility in conflict with savagery, simply because there’s nobody else there equipped to help them know better and see sense. A lesson for the ages.
Few understand why previous US electorates were unwise and apathetic enough to allow a proudly amoral and unashamedly mendacious convicted felon, fraudster and sexual offender to accede to the highest office in the free world, not once but twice.
The whole world breathed a huge sigh of relief at these compelling US Mid Terms results. Moderates and progressives the world over thanked this reinvigorated US electorate for giving them the recipe to defeat, simplistic, divisive, xenophobic populism in a Global Village era, when we are all connected as never before. Because of them, we all now believe, once again, that we, on the right side of history, outnumber those who would wish to drag us over to the barren, derelict environment of the other side.
All it requires, when the low standard and merit of candidates and parties demands it, is clear-headed, selfless, pragmatic thinking and local collaboration to vote tactically to exclude those manifestly unfit to serve from ever getting their hands anywhere near the levers of power. We now have communication devices in virtually every adult pocket and the largely unmediated channels of free digital tools, to make such local collaboration as easy as it has ever been for ordinary people in human history, whensoever it might be needed for us to step up and do it.
Let’s hope this US 2026 Mid Term ‘BlueNami’ now washes some sense into polities, societies and economies across the globe.
MB
(Neuilly-sur-Seine, November, 2026)