Why the Red Wave Didn’t Materialize

The New York Times ^ | Nov. 10, 2022 | Sohrab Ahmari

[definitelynotaliberal]

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Episodes like this may be one reason the red wave didn’t materialize, why Republicans failed to usher in a new dawn of prosperity for the multiracial working class that Republican leaders from Senator Ted Cruz to the House policy honcho Jim Banks say they want to champion. When it came down to it, the Republican Party offered ordinary American workers little that might have bolstered their power or leveled the economic playing field. That failure helped dash conservative hopes for a clean Republican sweep.

Mutual recriminations will ping-pong around right-wing circles in the coming days and weeks. Most will likely center on “messaging,” candidate choices and other such tactical failures. It’s true that local circumstances shape any midterm election — we live in a vast and variegated country, and each race has its own contours. Still, in an era when national politics exerts such a strong gravitational pull on local elections, the most important question is: What sort of national vision did the Republican Party offer working Americans in 2022?

It’s hard to say, really. The best I can come up with is something like this: Hand us the keys to government, but don’t expect us to give you anything in return. And in that indifference lies the central problem bedeviling Republicans up and down the ballot.

[Lod881019]

Abortion it’s all single women vote on and the GOP did nothing to counter it

[11th_VA]

5th column Millennials came out in large numbers and voted for abortion, marijuana, and against Trump candidates - that skewed the vote. Republican members of Congress got 6 million more votes than Democrats - so there was a wave down ballot.

[DOC44]

for the same reason Trump lost in atlanta and the black NY preacher went to the senate... THEY CHEATED

[WinstonSmith1984]

There was and is industrial scale voter fraud in PA, MI and all over. We are being lead by demons into the fire. They are holding up the vote in AZ to figure out a way to exhaust us and eventually kill us.

[JBW1949]

From the New York Times.......

Ahhhh, well.......

[bella1]

Dobbs.

[budj]

OK, give me a link to a “sign-in” site at the NY Times to get a “fair and accurate” analysis of a problem in the GOP vote machine.

Thanks.

[Lod881019]

Lake is too smart for that but PA was lost because Mastriano was a terrible
Candidate at the top of the ticket

[Revel]

The MSM is going all out on this kind of narrative. Obvious mass manipulation. Too bad people even read them.

[Obadiah]

More "experts" coming out of the woodwork after the election. I think we should check the entrails of a goat to see what happened.

[AlbertWang]

Don’t forget that the democrats are the party of free government money.

Stimi checks

Student loan forgiveness.

Rent holidays

Free healthcare

The republicans are the ones paying the bill.

[sauropod]

/eyeroll

[Frank Drebin]

It never existed in the first place. It was always a media generated fantasy created to setup the theater you are watching and reading right now.

[WinstonSmith1984]

Lod881019(interesting name, sounds like a bot), No, he lost because PA is beyond corrupt. Just like 2020, there are more votes than eligible voters in PA... the most obvious thing and for some reason we can’t get everyone to speak about it. MORE VOTES THAN ELIBLE VOTERS. BETTER THAN 100% TURN OUT... WTF OVER.

[Liz]

Repubs WON More SUPERMAJORITIES Than EVER / Dr. Steve Turley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsAXNmJrRMo

Pro life women carried the day.

<><>2022 Repub wave is bigger (more votes) than tea party 2014…
<><>Republicans outvoted democrats 52-46 nationwide…
<><>6 million vote advantage for republicans…
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[11th_VA]

Oh yeah - that’s why Millennials voted RAT. And now they can’t afford housing, so you can bet the RATs will make that front and center 2024

[AnglePark]

The Red Wave was a psyop, cooked up by the White House, their cooperative media partners, pollsters and pundits. It was all intended to discourage MAGA supporters after it didn’t materialize. And to make Trump look as if he’s a failure, for not delivering a historic sweep — even though his endorsements did really well.

That’s why all the Left-wing media spent so much time “crying” over it before the election, to sell the entire charade.

[SamuraiScot]

Sohrab, we hardly knew ya.

This former Opinion Editor of The New York Post has put on a Times uniform, and is suddenly batting for the Communists. He was actually born in Iran, so you might suppose his cultural knowledge of America was never all that deep. But that's not the case. I read his first book and many of his columns--and met him--and I'd say he has no excuse for being so air-headed. Does he really not grasp that both unions and those capitalists who pay off politicians to steer them government money are just taking different routes to arrive at the same goal: using the State to take money out of the people's bank accounts and give it to the Connected Class?

In his defense, I'm sure the NYT editors snipped out any criticisms he made of the Democrats. But this is a sad scrap of nothing from a once-savvy writer.

[napscoordinator]

Yep!