Midterms Send a Message the Beltway Won't Want to Hear

Midterm elections are taking place in the United States, and for voters fed up with the permanent political class, the timing could hardly be more pointed.

As the New York Post puts it: "We don't know yet who will win what elections in the midterms." But the paper adds: "But we can already predict this much: the biggest loser is likely to be Congress."

The Washington Times notes that midterms are usually a referendum on the party in power, and that this one is also shaping up as a stress test for some of the biggest assumptions in American politics. For critics of the status quo, that is exactly the point: the assumptions of the elites are what ordinary citizens are being asked to pay for.