GET BENT, TRUMP!! A Midterm Election Postmortem

Russell Michaels

Russell is inside his own mind, a comfortable yet silly place. He is also on Twitter.

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  1. DrSloperWazRobbed says:

    Always love the local color-PA. I myself lived right by the ballpark in Alexandria VA where Scalise was shot. I heard all the ambulances going by which made that more real for me and I sympathize w Scalise for the shooting, even tho he is too extreme for me.
    I recently started going undercover on truthsocial and on it almost all various pols talking heads and regular-not-famous-people are all in for trump, in a universe they live in where Tuesday was a GOOD day for trump. Tbf maybe 3-5%? of the not-famous people have started to post ‘let’s move on’ stuffReport

    • Snarky in reply to DrSloperWazRobbed says:

      Trump was an idea instigated by the Hillary Campaign.
      “Who is the Republican no one could vote for?”
      She moved heaven and earth to get him elected (some of that was stupidity).

      Trump’s friend got two dead men elected (one for PA senate, one as a Congressman) — on zilch for funds, as the DNC had bailed early on PA. Now he’s getting promoted to a place where he can get more done (and by “more done” we mean more sabotage).

      Ain’t dead yet, dudes.Report

      • Russell Michaels in reply to Snarky says:

        It didn’t help that the party didn’t tell him to pound sand in 2011 after all that Birther business.Report

        • Chip Daniels in reply to Russell Michaels says:

          The more time goes on, the more obvious it seems that the 2012 election and the post-mortem was a major inflection point in Republican party politics.

          They openly acknowledged that one course of recovery might be to moderate on racism and culture war issues.

          But instead they chose Trump.

          I’m not saying it will result in their political failure. In fact it might lead to a long period of their absolute power.

          But 2012 was the last time anyone could think of the Republican Party as a normal political party, that is, a party which has as its unspoken foundations, the respect for democracy and the rule of law.Report

  2. He could have been gracious or at least quiet, but nope. You do have to admire his consistency.Report

  3. DavidTC says:

    CNN has called both Arizona and Nevada for the Democrats, which technically makes Georgia superfluous.

    I was going to make a summary of the House, but honestly…well, let’s just say that the Republicans seem to lead in 10, and need only 7…except a lot of these leads are fairly close with absurdly small amounts of returns in.

    Like, CA-13 has them leading by 84 votes with only 46% reporting, for the absurd example.

    That said, the Democrats are barely leading in just as many races.

    In the races that actually _seems_ to be numerically close to finished, Republicans have three or four, depending on where you draw the line. (Sadly, one of those is Boebert, barely, but that’s 99% counted and I have to honestly let her have it.) The Democrats seem to have three or four also.

    So that would be something like Republicans 214 or 215, Democrats 207 or 208. Needing to get to 218.

    The problem is that a large chunk of the _remaining_ seats, the ones that aren’t counted enough to figure anything out about are California seats, and all of are ‘close-ish’ now, and I’m feeling like late ballots will break Democratic? Maybe I’m wrong, but…the House race is not actually over yet. Call me optimistic, maybe i don’t know how California votes, but…it is at least going to come down to that.

    Huh. CNN just literally called one for the Democrats while I was typing.Report

  4. rexknobus says:

    He can’t GET BENT. He IS bent.Report