Maybe we should just run around with our fingers in our ears and occasionally yelling, “We wuz robbed!” instead of facing reality and determining why we lost the support of so many voters.
I think its better to blame moderately higher gas prices instead of decades of importing non-Whites into America.
Amen.
This stupid crap only serves to prevent the necessary reflection.
I think there are a variety of lessons to be learned, and a lot of very simple “duh” stuff.
But yeesh, people. Get out of your bubbles.
I drank the hopium - I thought the election would be bad, but not THIS bad. And in hindsight?
The results don’t surprise me at all.
DJT brought a lot of infrequent - and yeah, leftists - to the polls. They’re fickle. They want government to fix their lives. They still do, but their lives didn’t get fixed so they went the other way (or stayed home).
More personal and what I missed? Call me a ‘RINO’ all you want - but ‘MAGA’ decided to dump all over center-right conservatives. RELIABLE - super reliable - GOP voters. People who just want lower taxes, less government, and honestly? Love Republicans like W - who only got screwed by (his own fault) the Iraq War.
It’s been a while since I had algebra, but I’ll try.
In 2024, Trump beat Harris 6,393,597 to 4,835,250, with 61% turnout.
In 2026, Talifreako beat ethically-challenged Paxton 5,445,121 to 4,249,752.
That means 1.5MM voters in 2024 didn’t play in 2026.
Talifreako grew Harris’ vote total by 12%. Paxton fell 2.1MM/ 33% from Trump’s total.
Based on exit polling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_Senate_election_in_Texas#Analysis, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas#Exit_poll_data), Paxton relative to Trump,
-lost 10 percentage points of Moderate support,
-lost 11 percentage points of White Men and 8 of White Women,
-lost 12 percentage points of Black Men,
and more.
As for why, The Pubbies are Dems circa 2024, just in reverse…”Dems are baaaaad. Vote for us, not because we offer anything, but because they’re commies, socialists, and very baaaad.”
In fact here is Ken Paxton’s election website - https://www.kenpaxton.com/ - Right there, at the top and up front…what is his message?
‘KEN PAXTON UNSHAKABLE. UNBROKEN. UNAFRAID.
‘The Democrats have made Texas their top target, and they’ve nominated the most radical candidate in Texas history: James Talarico. This election will determine whether Texas remains the conservative stronghold that leads America or becomes another state controlled by the radical left.
‘KEN PAXTON IS LEADING THE FIGHT TO STOP HIM, BUT HE CAN’T DO IT ALONE.’
That’s it…vote for me because I’m not Talarico. Forget about my ethics problems because he is a baaaad man. For what do I stand? I dunno…but I’m not him. That’s reason enough. Shaddap and vote for me already.
No vision, no philosophy, not even some pork.
In a nutshell, Paxton lead a flaccid campaign that didn’t inspire voters, or give them a legit reason to vote FOR HIM. All he did was offer a reason to not vote for the freakazoid, who only needed to grow Harris’ vote total 12%.
It’s easy to blame it on fraud. That prevents honest reflection and doing the hard work to correct errors.
Keep up the fraud whining, and President Newsome and VP AOC take oaths in 2029.
I have a better idea. Let’s perform exorcisms on those who claim to be Christian but aligned themselves with Baal.
You’re gonna have a hard time convincing folks around here that it’s anything other than a conspiracy that the Republicans lost in the midterms. They just do not want to understand how loathsome Trump is to the vast majority of people in this country, so they’ll invent reasons to not face that fact. Or if they do understand how loathsome Trump is to most people, they actually revel in that because deep down they are trolls.
Trump played a lot of people here for suckers and rubes, and it worked! He said what you wanted him to say (even if most of what he says is lies), he was a dick to the people you wanted to be dicks to, and he seemed untouchable because he was such a bully that he was used to getting his way by sheer force of his will. I mean, I’m impressed that he convinced so many people that a venal, vindictive and braggadocious billionaire would somehow help the downtrodden common man. It’d be hilarious if it wasn’t so damn tragic.
In reality, Trump is a failed businessman who was born on home plate, and he has used his vast inherited wealth to skate through life. He bankrupts casinos for Pete’s sake. The list of his sins and lies is truly astonishing. But somehow a good number of you thought this sounded just great.
Eventually, however, the political bill comes due. I for one am not sad to be seeing MAGA go down in flames. It’s a political movement that is antagonistic at its core and really doesn’t have any foundational principles to lean upon other than the accumulation of power.
I’m happy to discuss opposing views, but I’m sure I’ll mostly get flamed to death for posting this. That’s ok, IDGAF.