This is the most important midterm election in our lifetime

The only way to quickly — and surely — consign Trumpism to the dustbin of history is by defeating it at the polls

Protesters.

Politicians are self-important creatures. Many have a savior complex. So it's really not surprising that they habitually overplay the importance of elections, especially ones they are contesting. Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, John Kennedy — all of them tried to coax voters to schlep to the polls by declaring their presidential runs the "most important election of our lifetime." Usually that's just not the case.

But this Tuesday is different.

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Shikha Dalmia

Shikha Dalmia is a visiting fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University studying the rise of populist authoritarianism.  She is a Bloomberg View contributor and a columnist at the Washington Examiner, and she also writes regularly for The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous other publications. She considers herself to be a progressive libertarian and an agnostic with Buddhist longings and a Sufi soul.