David Brooks Says Voters May Not Have Liked the Dems, But ‘They Preferred a Party That Was Sort of Out of Touch to a Party That Was Out of Their Minds’

‘Historically when the president’s approval was low the party loses but these are exceptional circumstances because of this authoritarian threat’

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    BROOKS: “Well, what had happened was two weeks before the race or three weeks, the generic ballot really did move in the favor of the Republicans and there was a moment it looked like if that was going to continue to move, then the Republicans would have a good night. But then the last two weeks it just sort of jumped and instead it just flat lined and so the Republicans did not continue to make gains on that thing.”