一场历史性的民主党大胜被评论员认为是特朗普联盟的死亡警钟。共和党周二的中期大败标志着基于“展示无懈可击与无情”的民族主义运动的终结，政治学家《政治》写道，许多高管、外交官、将军和总理都选择了投降。
A historic Democratic rout sounded the death knell for the Trump coalition, commentators argued. Republicans’ midterm wipeout on Tuesday marks the end of a nationalist movement based on “projecting invulnerability and ruthlessness,” Politico wrote, to which “so many executives and diplomats and generals and prime ministers chose to submit.”
然而，结果并不保证民主党将长期占据主导地位：摇摆选民“租赁一年任期”，记者德里克·汤普森写道，使得周二的结果更像是一次“历史性崩溃”而非真正的重组。
Still, the results don’t guarantee years of Democratic dominance: Swing voters are “leasing one-year terms,” journalist Derek Thompson wrote, making Tuesday less a realignment than a “historic collapse.”
前总统唐纳德·特朗普曾经成功的动员其基础选民的策略——“用不懂这基础的人的钱”——这一次没有奏效，Semafor的戴维·韦格尔认为：“民主党赌上了重力是真实的，而特朗普再也无法违抗它。”
President Donald Trump’s once-successful strategy of turning out his base “with money from people who didn’t understand that base” didn’t work this time, Semafor’s David Weigel argued: “Democrats made a bet that gravity was real, and Trump couldn’t defy it anymore.”