Voting Republican Because of Inflation Makes No Sense

The results of mid-term elections in America generally track the national mood. Certainly, each race involves individual candidates of greater or lesser degrees of sanity, presentability, committment to personal hygiene, etc. And the way things play out in individual races does matter to some extent.

The results of a close election can change depending on, for example, how many previously unacknowledged children you have, or how often you do, or do not, lurk in a trench coat outside of a nunnery. But generally speaking, races tend to…