In 2017, Democrats controlled the upper and lower houses of state legislatures and the governorship in only six states. Republicans controlled 27 states with such electoral arrangements, making the previous decade the golden age of Republican government at the state and local levels.
It was dominance in government that Barack Obama’s uncaring and dismissive attitude toward Democratic Party state and local organizations and a well-planned GOP assault across the country on Democratic strongholds in state capitals made possible. The 2022 midterm election saw Democrats take control of four more states, giving them 17 states under their wing to the Republican’s 22.
