#English #英語 We often see talk of "wave elections" involving major gains for a party (most likely the party out of power), and even of a "tsunami" (at the high end of a wave election). These idioms are normal and accepted in America. I'm not sure I'd use them in Asia.
America's politics adopted a funny "color coding" 22 years ago. On maps, "blue states" were Democrat-voting states (for Al Gore) and "red states" were Republican-voting states (for George W. Bush). Red had been a left of center color for... decades? Centuries? No more!
Thus talk of a "red tide", "red wave" and "red tsunami" involve predictions (of varying size/ severity) of Republicans gaining in the 2022 midterm elections to be held shortly. As readers we must accept the language as it comes to us. Writers, less so perhaps.
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