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The Washington Examiner

Salena Zito, National Political Reporter

May 08, 2022

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CARLISLE, Pennsylvania — It was called the political storm of the century. It would end with the largest single turnover of power in American history — and one for the ages.

It was fall 1894. People were still feeling the effects of the Panic of 1893, which had shut down most of the economy and plunged the nation into a catastrophic recession, with every segment of the country in a world of pain. Farmers were disgusted with the cost of wheat; laborers were desperate for jobs and higher pay.

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The only message President Joe Biden has given people on inflation is that it is Putin’s fault — an insulting premise to everyone who has been watching prices rise rapidly for the last 12 months.

Suburban parents are moving right, even if they don’t want to, because Democrats have gone overboard on control of the classroom, questionable curricula, and over-the-top mandates.

Even the issues that surround Roe v. Wade are highly unlikely to save them. Indeed, depending on how they play it, the coming Supreme Court decision might actually cost them votes. Messaging on abortion is quite perilous. The more you argue in favor of it, and the more emotionally and graphically you do so, the more you turn people off.

Grover Cleveland, like Joe Biden, remained both stubborn and stuck — both ahead of those midterm elections and in his final two years in office. He tried to weaponize the press against the farmers and the working class. He continued to hold the same positions, including a commitment to free trade, that turned voters away from him.

On the day after the Nov. 6midterm elections in 1894, the chairman of what was then called the Congressional Democratic Committee, Sen. Charles Faulkner of West Virginia, wept as he told the Chicago-based daily Inter Ocean, “I did the best I could.”

Cleveland, for his part, said nothing for days. He left the White House early on the day of the election to escape to his country home on Woodley Lane. His first emergence came in the form of a proclamation making Nov. 29a day of "thanksgiving and prayer." He never forgave his party for abandoning him two years later.

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