At the Atlantic, Russell Burman details this reasoning in his new article “Maybe Democrats Didn’t Do So Badly After All ”: Now a clearer picture of the election has emerged, complicating the debate over whether Democrats need to reinvent themselves—and whether voters really abandoned them at all.

Instead of asking what’s the matter with Kansas, the question for 2025 and beyond is what’s the matter with Democrats.

Representative Pramila Jayapal said that Democrats "forced" Trump and Musk "to back down from the 11th hour demand to pass a suspension of the debt ceiling."

President-elect Donald Trump dismissed any suggestion that he’s being usurped by his high-profile billionaire ally Elon Musk, coming off a week in which Musk helped derail an emergency spending measure to avert a government shutdown.