Post-US midterms : Time for pragmatism, not ideological warfare

IF THE outcome of the US midterm elections demonstrated anything, it is that most Americans rejected the ideological extremes represented by some of the Republican and Democratic candidates who ran in the congressional and gubernatorial races in November – and lost.

Hence most of the GOP candidates endorsed by former President Donald Trump – who had embraced his Big Lie about the so-called “stolen” 2020 presidential election and other conspiracy theories and radical right-wing positions – failed to win the support of even moderate Republican and independent voters. The Red Tsunami that many predicted didn’t happen.

And the Democratic candidates who ended up winning some of the critical races represented the centrist wing of their party, rejecting such ideas as defunding the police and distancing themselves from the woke dogmas promoted by members of the progressive wing.