Thu Nov 4, 2021 – 6:28 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – After Tuesday’s embarrassing electoral shellacking, Democrats on Capitol Hill and in statehouses around the country are scared. They should be. History is repeating itself, and it’s marvelous to behold.
In 2009, Democrats owned the White House and could boast of huge majorities in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, which they mistook to be a mandate from the American people to pass every item on their legislative wish list that had been collecting dust in their desk drawers for years. At the top of that list was what came to be known as ‘Obamacare.’
But the mandate was a myth. Congressional Democrats rushed ahead with their priorities, which, as it turned out, were vastly different from those of ordinary folks living outside the D.C. Beltway.
America at the time was still reeling from the “Great Recession” after the collapse of the mortgage market the year before in much the same way that our country remains mired in horrible COVID pandemic measures that began last year.
The 2009 midterm election gave the first hint that a massive backlash was about to smack Democrat politicians in the face: Republican Chris Christie knocked incumbent Democrat Jon Corzine
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