I’m not aware of a lot of things, and one of them is anyone else making the point I’m about to make.
Trump’s defeat on November 3 was so comprehensive that Republicans ought to be totally fortified against heeding him in the future.
First, the voters repudiated the Republican Party because of the stuff Donald Trump did that pissed them off and the Republicans’ complicity in it.
Second, the Republican wipeout was worse than it nee
ded to be because one of the things Donald Trump commanded Republicans to do was an unprecedented mid-decade redistricting, in the course of which they structurally disadvantaged themselves in a way that would cost them heavily in a blue wave election — not just in 2026 but any blue wave election before the next redistricting, which normally would include 2028 and 2030. This was a known risk to anyone with an IQ above that of a Gerbil, which, alas, excludes our President, who rules the GOP with a tiny iron paw (except in Indiana, bless ’em).
Third, the Democrats node bode well to be in control of an unusual number of statehouses in 2031, when the next redistricting is customarily expected.
So they can’t completely blame Trump because they all are at least theoretically grown-ups, but they were following his orders, which proved tripleplus ungood.
Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables” remark and Donald Trump’s “Fifth Avenue” remark amounted to the two of them saying the same thing about the same pigheaded rubes ….
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