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The midterms are looming -- and the specter of death for a representative republic
American Thinker ^ | 3 Dec, 2025 | Eric Utter

Posted on 12/04/2025 5:39:00 AM PST by MtnClimber

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To: Forward the Light Brigade

No.

Republicans in congress have to earn it.

I am not wasting another vote on weak, do nothing republicans.


41 posted on 12/04/2025 10:28:09 AM PST by KEVLAR ( )
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To: KEVLAR

Republicans in congress have to earn it.

I am not wasting another vote on weak, do nothing republicans.
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Please don’t punish America — by voting Democrat — just because progress is slow. The Democrats are always in the game for the long haul, and we must do likewise.


42 posted on 12/04/2025 11:48:09 AM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: MtnClimber

Our Republic died with:
A The creation of The Federal Reserve
B The passage of the 17th Amendment for direct election of Senators’
C The election of FDR in November of 1932

Everything else is icing on the cake like the passage of National Security Act of 1947.


43 posted on 12/04/2025 11:50:35 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: MtnClimber

The senate may hold, but the House is gone already and was the moment Trump was elected. Remember the so called Red Wave in 2018?
The house usually goes to the opposition party in off year elections.
The first order of business in the new house will be Articles of impeachment against Trump and this time he may lose in the Senate.


44 posted on 12/04/2025 11:53:02 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Flavious_Maximus
Problem is too many do not take the "you cannot have a 1st world country with a 3rd world population" seriously enough.

There are just too many brain-dead/lethargic in Europe/America, making them ripe for take-over.

Destroy from within...as relevant today as it was then...only now we are actually realizing it.

Lesson never learned with empires..."never let the parasites in".

45 posted on 12/04/2025 11:57:03 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (there are demons out there, and they look like people)
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To: Socon-Econ

I will never vote for a democrat.

Republicans have to get in the game or they lose.

Simple as that.


46 posted on 12/04/2025 12:04:22 PM PST by KEVLAR ( )
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To: lee martell

Filibuster prevents codification of the EOs.


47 posted on 12/04/2025 12:05:02 PM PST by Theodore R. ( )
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To: KEVLAR

You still think politics is local, it is not, it is all National now, and the Democrats treat every election, whether its school board, local or state elections as having national ramifications, and all that matters is the candidate be loyal to the party.


48 posted on 12/04/2025 12:07:54 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel; MtnClimber; RitaOK
Modern Politics as we know it are Iocane Powder.

Or syrup of ipecac . . .

49 posted on 12/04/2025 3:42:33 PM PST by AFB-XYZ (( We have two options: 1. Stand up, or 2. Bend over))
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To: MtnClimber

I’m not into the doom and gloom.

If they lose the House it will be because of Rinos bailing like 2018.

MTG gone next month. Greene left yet we won in the special election.


50 posted on 12/04/2025 3:58:49 PM PST by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: PTBAA

Not votes...ballots


51 posted on 12/04/2025 3:59:51 PM PST by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: MtnClimber

I agree


52 posted on 12/04/2025 4:00:49 PM PST by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Bon of Babble

Trump is Trump. Greene also won +22. But that was a Presidential year. This was a special election in December. I voted early in November.

10 points is big. The part of Nashville in the 7th has only been there for 3 years. That is where she got her votes. It’s 14 counties and covers a lot of rural areas.

Turnout was about half from 2024. Special elections are always like that.

Turnout will need to be better in 26.


53 posted on 12/04/2025 4:05:56 PM PST by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: DesertRhino

2/3s is to override vetoes.


54 posted on 12/04/2025 4:07:08 PM PST by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: cgbg

I think a winning issue is dumping the Real ID. It’s confusing and arbitrary state by state.


55 posted on 12/04/2025 4:08:58 PM PST by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Captain Peter Blood

The Red Wave was supposed to happen in 2022.


56 posted on 12/04/2025 4:09:58 PM PST by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: MtnClimber

Back to fear and loathing you little prick. Your name is MoleHillClimber.


57 posted on 12/04/2025 4:15:21 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn... )
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To: Fledermaus

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/17/639030198/trump-predicts-red-wave-but-special-elections-show-democrats-poised-for-big-gain

First Red Wave Prediction was 2018 by Trump. Democrats gained over 28 seats in that off year election.


58 posted on 12/04/2025 4:22:57 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Captain Peter Blood

So many Rinos bailed


59 posted on 12/04/2025 4:25:46 PM PST by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

I am more optimistic than most posters on this thread.

It takes 67 votes in the Senate to convict. Those votes aren’t there.

I never heard of jailing a sitting president. There would be a revolution or a guerilla type civil war.

As for the mid-terms, most of the Trump tax cuts kick in next year. Also, 23 trillion dollars is coming into the economy, most of it from overseas. We will also have a new Fed chair in May. There should be a roaring economy by election day.

As I previously posted, Rush used to say, “The events that will determine the outcome of the election have not happened yet.”

However, the GOP needs a much better ground game. Also, decades ago Jesse Unruh, the comptroller of California, was quoted as saying, “Money is the mother’s milk of politics.” President Trump and his inner circle need to raise billions of dollars to fund the House and Senate races. The scumbag demon rats give the GOP plenty of political ammunition...the GOP just needs the will to use it.


60 posted on 12/04/2025 5:06:51 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Charlie Kirk's assassination / murder was our Fort Sumter moment. But only one side is fighting.)
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