Trump's politics the new normal in US

While the Republican Party is becoming more firmly entrenched in the rural, mainly white parts of the country, the suburban areas are going in the Democratic direction

Though his name was not on the ballot, the US mid-term elections were all about Donald Trump. For his opponents these elections were about reducing his political size. For his supporters, this was a moment to reassert the underlying shift in America’s domestic political landscape. Both sides did everything possible to rally their base and in the end it seems it was Mr Trump who managed to have the upper hand despite ceding control of the US House of Representatives to the Democrats.

Many Democrats were predicting this to be a wave election which would take away Mr Trump’s power. Nothing