The predominant commentary is that the Republican drubbing was a vote on “competence, not ideological change.” On this spin, the political and cultural changes ushered in by the Reagan Revolution remain vital.
In The New Republic’s academic blog, “Open University,” Eric Rauchway thinks “you could spin this the other way, and say the Republican majorities
from 1994 onward were themselves a throw-the-bums out, nonideological
response, artificially prolonged by the politicization of 9/11 and the
War on Terror.”
