Two years ago, Donald Trump carried Texas in a landslide. Last night, Texas sent a seminary-trained Democrat who once declared “God is nonbinary” to the United States Senate.

• Similar stories occurred all over the nation in yesterday’s midterm elections. Americans turned against the president and handed power to some of the most radical politicians in the nation’s history.

Democrats took ground Republicans have held for a generation.

• They will control the Senate after flipping at least seven Republican seats: Texas, Ohio, Iowa, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maine and Kansas, which hadn’t elected a Democratic senator since 1932.
• They are headed for a House majority of 250 seats or more, the largest since 2009.
• Texas turned bright blue: Democrats swept the state’s governorship, lieutenant governorship and attorney general’s office.

Voters say they were voting against Trump. Exit surveys show anger over the economy and the Iran war. But look who those angry voters chose.

• Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan will be America’s first Muslim senator. He campaigned on abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and cutting off military aid to Israel, whose war in Gaza he calls genocide. He beat a mainstream Republican by about 7 points.
• James Talarico of Texas has argued that Mary’s consent to bear Jesus Christ supports abortion rights. He has told the Texas House that God is “both masculine and feminine and everything in between.” He won by 12 points.
• The Democrats’ socialist wing is gaining steam. Its House contingent will more than triple, and it got there by toppling establishment Democrats. These members want Medicare for All, a defunded ice and an end to military aid for Israel. None have committed to backing Hakeem Jeffries as speaker.
• Washington, D.C., and Providence, Rhode Island, elected democratic socialist mayors.

It was also a historic night for women, and many of the winners come from the hard left. At least 17 women will serve as governors next year, breaking the record of 14.

• Georgia elected the nation’s first black woman governor. New Mexico elected the first Native American woman governor of any state. Ohio, Minnesota and Tennessee elected their first women governors, and Texas elected its first Latina.
• Minnesota’s Peggy Flanagan, the first Native American woman elected to the Senate, campaigned on Medicare for All, blocking weapons for Israel and a pledge to “rip ice apart.”
• Denver’s Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old socialist, was fired from a law firm over an open letter questioning Israel’s legitimacy and later declined to call last year’s firebombing of Jews in Boulder, Colorado, anti-Semitic.
• The capital itself will be run by Janeese Lewis George, a dsa member who once vowed to divest the city’s police.

Angry voters are reaching for the extremes. Our current Trumpet issue documents this pattern across the Western world: furious electorates punishing whoever holds power and lurching toward whoever promises the most dramatic change.

America has done it twice in two years, swinging from Trump’s populist right to the socialist left. Both poles are stronger, and the center is hollowing out, leaving the nation more divided than ever.

Change to what? As Gerald Flurry has said, the nation’s resurgence under President Trump was temporary, contingent on national repentance. That did not come. The president has proved himself a fallible man, like all other men—no place to invest your trust.

• Unhappy voters demanded change, and they got it. But instead of turning to God, the nation is replacing one set of leaders with another, more radical set.

Expect two years of war in Washington—gridlock, subpoena fights and a president at war with Congress.

• When the new Congress is sworn in on January 3, Democrats will chair every committee. They can block Trump’s bills and his nominees, including any Supreme Court pick. They plan to introduce bills that will end the Iran war and to fight the president’s tariffs.
• They will investigate the Trump family’s business and cryptocurrency deals, immigration enforcement and the conduct of the war. The incoming House Oversight chairman’s election-night message to Republicans: “Lawyer up.”
• Trump has suffered a sweeping rebuke, and his party knows it. Republicans are blaming his tariffs, his candidates and his war with Iran. He is blaming them back. How will a mercurial, wounded, cornered president respond to two years of Democratic investigations?

“… O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths” (Isaiah 3:12). This nation has rejected God’s law, and it is reaping a whirlwind of leaders who cannot lead (Hosea 8:7). The curses are about to intensify.