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This is very bad for the Deplorable Agenda. In Alabama, Dems have found a way to win....gin up the Black female population. Establishment Republicans have shown that they’d rather lose elections than have someone win who is opposed to them. I’m wondering if they’re planning to throw the next election in the US Senate just to keep control of the national agenda, along with their real allies, Democratic power brokers.

It isn’t possible to throw the Senate.

The dems have 25 seats against our 8 in 2018.

They have 11 vulnerable, we have ....maybe 1.

Do the math...

This is very bad for the Deplorable Agenda. In Alabama, Dems have found a way to win....gin up the Black female population. Establishment Republicans have shown that they’d rather lose elections than have someone win who is opposed to them. I’m wondering if they’re planning to throw the next election in the US Senate just to keep control of the national agenda, along with their real allies, Democratic power brokers.

Unfortunately, you are right. The establishment Republicans have shown that they are not a weak opposition force, they are actually allied to the left. And your point about black females is right on the mark. They have learned how to get a very high turnout that provides absolute and unconditional support to anyone backed by the swamp. Trump supporters (of which I am one, btw) are whistling past the graveyard, here, and have completely stuck their heads in the sand. This was Alabama. A republican candidate could be caught with a dead girl, a live boy, and an assortment of farm animals, and still win by double digits. People saying that he lost because he didn't campaign in the last week, and because he ran a poor campaign, are kidding themselves. There is clearly something else going on.

The bottom line is that Trump won for one reason: a sizable block of voters despise DC, and believe that DC is completely out of control in terms of what they do to the citizenry, what they take from the citizenry, and their sense of entitlement. Trump, for all of his flaws, was seen as someone who sided, unequivocally, with ordinary people. He was, after all, the blue collar billionaire. He wasn't elected to give us a tax cut. He wasn't elected to fix health care. He wasn't even there to enforce the border (although this was, and is, very important). No. He was there to drain the swamp. That was the most important thing. People sense that something is fundamentally broken, and he was elected to fix it. And it has been a year. Preaching "patience" doesn't negate the bottom line. There have been no substantive arrests. Nobody is sitting in jail. There have not been widespread firings. We do not have ongoing trials. Nothing. Trump is fighting from his heels, and the swamp, quite frankly, is stronger than ever. Their control over both parties, the media, and governmental institutions has, at a minimum, not been harmed by Trump and, if anything, has grown stronger.

Republican voters are clearly discouraged. There is no way, on God's green earth, that a non-establishment Republican would have lost a state like Alabama otherwise. His "scandal" was a 40 year old, unproven allegation, that he dated younger women (compare this to the allegations against, say, Clinton, of rampant drug use, rape, and wholesale corruption). A minor allegation, and a lackluster campaign, does *not* translate into a loss in a state like Alabama, which does not have the sizable Democrat voting base of similar states like Mississippi, South Carolina, and Georgia. He should have won, handily, even though he was a weak candidate, a flawed candidate, and a strange little man. Something else is going on here, and it has to do with the Republican voters. Not the die-hard supporters preaching patience and "this is 4d chess, Trump is a master tactician" types. Ordinary Republican voters, who despise Washington, are discouraged, and the swamp is figuring out how to combat the political insurgency.

2018 will be a great year for Trump Supporters. I think you’ll see R Senators (Missouri, Indiana, Florida, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. And maybe a few blue states, too.). I think you will see R governors in Connecticut, Pennsylvania and New York. House seats, maybe a pick up of 1 to 5 seats...