Vassilis Ntousas in Progressive Post: Democrats and Democracy Defied Expectations in US 2022 Midterms

On 8 November 2022, two years after Joe Biden was elected president of the United States, Americans cast their ballots in a highly consequential midterm election. Although the final results may take days or weeks to be known, the vaunted ‘red wave’ that most politicians, pundits and prognosticators had confidently predicted ended up being merely a ripple. Predictions aside, though, perhaps the biggest relief of this election cycle concerned American democracy itself.