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.

[napscoordinator]

Yeah. Let’s just naw on that bone for a while. We do have to reflect on what really went wrong.

[ealgeone]

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.

Can't disagree with this.

[napscoordinator]

Actually, Trump gave us more stimulus money than Biden

[Maris Crane]

Sohrab, go sit down in a corner somewhere and ponder.

You’re probably a New York kind of guy or girl.

You are going to have many more Representatives going back to DC in January who are REPUBLICAN for the first time in years.

Think about how we failed, and then treat yourself to a beer.

[max americana]

BS

The GOP won the house. Mission accomplished. Leave it the leftard media to demoralize our wins.

[Paal Gulli]

Why the Red Wave Didn’t Materialize

[Lod881019]

Bot huh? I can tell you don’t follow hockey maybe get your head out of Orwell’s ass and do something manly for a change. Th election wasn’t stolen the GOP just has no vote by mail operation to counter the Democrats and Trump should have gone with the guy who actually worked for him in Lou Bartletta a far better choice.

[Lod881019]

Exit polls show it’s all unmarried women under 30 voted on eyeroll back

[Liz]

RED WAVE IN NEW YORK DEMOCRAT STRONGHOLD
<><>AOC-endorsed candidate got beat two to one
<><>Republicans won six additional seats, perhaps more
<><>several Democrat =races still in jeopardy
<><>Dem Congressional Campaign Committee and party Finance Chair, Sean Maloney, lost
<><>Maloney spoke harshly re AOC’s apparent lack of election participation
<><>AOC played no part as the Democrat majority got decimated by Repubs.

[sauropod]

Eyeroll indeed.

[sauropod]

Seems to be a lot of misinformation out there...

[Liz]

UPDATE

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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44 million total Dem votes reported. Where did Biden’s 37.5 million voters go?
(FREEPER PETE Dovgan)

Dems wasted $200 million just on serial losers Stacey and Beto…

[mewzilla]

Two words: Deep State.

We are no longer a republic.

People need to get that through their thick skulls.

[1Old Pro]

Exactly, we won. The Dems want to pretend they won by not losing big, seriously, that’s their and the media’s narrative. They can have it, I’ll take the house and stop Branden. Oh, the senate maybe too.