With only a week to go until the 2014 midterms, the public’s mood can be summed up in three words—frustration, anger, and anxiety. More than five years after the official end of the Great Recession, most people are frustrated by the stagnation of wages and household incomes. They are angry at a political system that seems incapable of acting on the most important challenges facing the country. And they are anxious about a world in which new threats to America’s security and wellbeing seem to be proliferating. CONT.
William Galston, Brookings Institution