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Will we get the Donald Trump we deserve after Tuesday’s bloodbath?
Tuesday was an effing bloodbath. Texas, of all places, basically flipped from blood red to sky blue. They elected to the Senate a dude who has a favorite drag queen! But it wasn’t just Texas. Donalds barely won his governor’s race in the reddest state in the union. Georgia picked a woman for governor who had to quit her race for mayor because she couldn’t win. And Michigan elected an Islamist to the Senate. Not to mention losing over 40 seats in the House and probably 9 in the Senate.
This is, any way you look at it, a disaster of epic proportions. Not necessarily historic, though. Obama lost 63 seats in the House in 2010 and 9 in the Senate in 2014. And overall, Grover Cleveland lost 125 seats in the House in 1894, and Ike lost 13 in the Senate in 1958. So, not necessarily historic, but ungodly bad for certain.
Everyone has their two cents about why this happened. Mine is pretty simple. The Republicans betrayed their voters. They were given control of the White House, Senate, and House, with an actual mandate: 1) Secure our borders and deport tens of millions of illegals. 2) Secure our elections. 3) Cut spending. 4) Don’t ‘eff up the economy.
Sadly, the GOP clowns managed to blow all four, or at least, in the case of the border and the economy, they lost the messaging.
On the first point, while Trump most certainly has been a vast improvement over Biden, the reality is that he allowed treasonous judges to hamstring him almost every step of the way. And Congress, which has complete control over the lower courts, did nothing to help him. Nothing
On the second point, Thune was nothing short of a disaster. At first, he claimed he couldn’t get the SAVE America Act past the filibuster, but then said that even if he could, he wouldn’t have had the votes to pass it. That’s the excuse of a manager, not a leader.
Can you imagine Pelosi not getting a bill that 85% of Americans wanted passed because of a few recalcitrant members? No chance. Leadership has power, and she would have used it…and she did, often. Thune was never a leader. He never inspired anyone…except animosity from people like me who think he’s a traitor. Had he accomplished that one task, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. But he didn’t, and we are.
On the third point, Trump, Thune, and Johnson basically played go along to get along. They cut virtually nothing. DOGE handed them hundreds of billions in fraud they could have cut, but they did practically nothing. And Nick Shirley, among others, showed them billions in grift, and they’ve done nothing.
All in all, they not only didn’t cut spending, but they increased it and added $3 trillion to the national debt in less than two years. Trump and virtually every Republican on Capitol Hill just went along as if spending growth were some otherworldly force that has a life of its own and over which they have no control.