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Is a Democratic ‘Blue Wave’ Really Coming?
Grass-roots frustration within the Democratic Party could lead to the Left’s own version of a Trump phenomenon.
- Nikolas K. Gvosdev
- The National Interest
Democrats are counting on a “Blue Wave” in the fall 2018 elections to return them to the majority, at least in the House of Representatives, and to pave the way for retaking control of the Executive Branch in the 2020 presidential election.
For many card-carrying members of the Democratic foreign policy establishment in Washington, this offers the opportunity not only to reverse the steps taken by the Trump administration to dismantle the…