Ran Halevi is director of research at the CNRS and professor at the Center for Political Research Raymond-Aron.
Typically, midterm elections are a referendum on the management of the incumbent president, often at his expense.
This time, they have another scope of which the electoral campaign has just given a foretaste: they test the excesses of an American democracy sick of the irreparable blows dealt to the spirit of its institutions.
On the left, the tribalization of citizenship corrodes the national idea, the principle of equality, freedom of expression and even the very notion of right.
Republicans are locked in another denial, the fable of the stolen 2020 election
The Republican Party - rather what it has become - has largely contributed to this.
It is to him, however, that the polls predict to win the House of Representatives, perhaps the Senate, many seats of governors and other elective offices.
Apparently, the Supreme Court's June reversal of abortion rights doesn't carry as much weight as Democrats had hoped, even though 61% of Americans say it should be legal in most cases.
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