Repeat after me: “There never WAS a blue wave.”
If you believe it wasn’t there, you are deceiving yourself.
The Blue Wave was indeed VERY real... but it wasn’t that AMERICA was hating Trump, and embracing left wing or democrats.. it was driven by Democrat enthusiasm, and apathy within the GOP and the Middle....
Look at any of the special elections and you will find an almost constant reality. Dems were getting near presidential year turnouts, while the GOP was only seeing midterm level turnouts. The GOP was winning the majority of the races because they were mostly held in districts where the GOP had such an advantage that GOP miterm level turnouts were higher than Dem presidential year turnouts.
The GOP was heading for a loss of the house, but the Dems very public meltdown and ugliness in the Kavanaugh fiasco, basically wiped out ANY chance of the GOP and the Middle remaining apathetic... now the GOP and more importantly the MIDDLE are just as engaged and motivated as the left...
The Dems literally shot themselves in the face with their behavior during the Kavanaugh hearings... The Senate was NEVER in play, just based on the map... but they literally took themselves from a position of almost certainly winning the house back, to not a chance in hell they will take the house, and now may even wind up LOSING seats.