LOVING: Why voters keep firing everyone
The ground has been moving since the internet showed up, and no party has caught up.
On Tuesday, Democrats took back the House and the Senate. That is the 6th time the House has changed hands since 1994.
The last time Americans flipped the House 6 times in a stretch like this was 1874 to 1894, when the country was being rebuilt by railroads, steel mills and the telegraph.
Put the two charts side by side and they look like the same chart.
Voters want change because they are living through profound technological and social change, and the economy that change built no longer works for Main Street. The Industrial Revolution produced the first era like this. The information revolution, meaning the internet and now AI, is producing the second.
This column will lay out the pattern, name the cause, explain what sped it up, and ask what ended it last time.