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While former President Donald Trump, the front-runner for the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nomination, was being arraigned on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, Americans were making it clear, once again, they’re not buying what Trump or the GOP are selling.
Cable news networks were blaring Trump in court, Trump in a car and Trump at Mar-a-Lago whining about his legal problems. But in Wisconsin, voters were carrying Democratic-backed Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz to victory in the race for a state Supreme Court seat, giving liberals control of a court that has leaned conservative for 15 years.
In Chicago, Brandon Johnson, the more progressive of the two Democratic candidates in the city’s mayoral race, won. A notable difference in that race was Johnson’s opponent, Paul Vallas, focused much of his campaign on a tough law-and-order message often associated with Republicans. It didn’t work.
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On Monday, thousands of students marched to the Tennessee State Capitol calling for more gun control in the wake of last week’s mass shooting at an elementary school in Nashville.
In last year’s midterm elections, Republicans dramatically underperformed as voters pushed back on the party’s attacks on abortion, voting and LGBTQ rights, as well as its ongoing support of Trump.
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If you start lining these developments up, it’s not hard to spot a trend.
After Protasiewicz’s sizable victory in Wisconsin, Ben Wikler, the state’s Democratic Party chair, tweeted: “It’s an earthquake. And you know what causes earthquakes? Tectonic shifts.”
Away from the Trump circus, it certainly feels like a shift is happening.
