Perhaps Republican politicians have learned that their voting base does not like tax increases.
When one looks at the districts that Republicans lost, it’s the affluent suburban districts in high tax states.
Exactly as many of us predicted when the tax bill was passed.
Republican voters resent Republican politicians raising their taxes, and either changed their vote to Dem, or didn’t vote, or didn’t vote for the Republican House candidate on the ballot.
And it happened enough that Republicans lost the House.
For those here who celebrated “sticking it to the blue states”, know that YOUR support for that effort contributed to the loss of the House.
I’m not so sure, for a pretty obvious reason.
1) SALT has not yet gone into effect.
2) The people in blue states will not see a tax raise on their federal income tax. Instead they will see their whopping state and local taxes.
3) What will hopefully turn into an angry argument about state and local taxes will soon turn to benefits for illegal aliens.