Those Americans who went to bed early Tuesday night might be forgiven for thinking they had traveled in time and space when waking to the new day on Wednesday.
In a way they had.
Tuesday's midterms delivered results that not even most Democrats dared to expect. But they for sure delivered results that many Republicans had feared.
The actual results were far better than expected in those embattled Democratic eyes, far worse in those now embattled Republican eyes.
This was one for the history books, an election day with a dizzying array of individual history-making outcomes.
But it was just one day. In the days, weeks and months ahead the Democrats will control both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
And with control comes enormous responsibility because what voters stated, loudly, was that the United States is facing a range of mountainous problems, not least a cost of living crisis that, as some commentators put it, was forcing people to choose between filling their gas tanks and filling their prescriptions.
This is not the America that anybody wants; it is not the America that anybody, regardless of responsible political affiliation, deserves.
And as for those affiliations. What is clear is that the Democrats surged not just as a result of voters registered with their party. Many registered Independents joined the chorus raised against bread and butter worries, and all too many other serious issues of concern.
And that chorus was augmented by many Republicans who recognize actual national priorities as opposed to Trump/MAGA fantasies.
And so, the Blue Wave.
And also a red, white and blue one.
