Posted on 11/08/2026 5:53:45 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
The American flags lay discarded on the tables, not a Maga hat in sight.
The crowd had dwindled to the last dregs of the party, with people nursing their warm martinis. On the screens above the bar, the unavoidable message blared: the blue wave sweeping across America.
At the "Make America Hot Again" party in an uptown bar in midtown Manhattan on Tuesday night, young Republicans faced a reckoning with their own party.
"Maga is officially dead," said Raquel Debono, 30 matter-of-factly. "The brand is done."
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Matthew McCormick, 29, had turned his stool away from the TV screen. The Republican strongholds of Texas and Kansas had just fallen; the Senate belonged to the Democrats.
"We need to take some hard-earned medicine; we need a return to sanity," he said. "We need to move back to common ground and bipartisanship – how the GOP used to be."
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My opinion: I'm not dismissing some of the issues that were stated (Iran War, cost of living, etc.), and I think on some of those Trump didn't do himself any favors. But the people quoted in this article are what I would call 'unserious'.
As far as to the latter bit: those paragons who would fit the description pretty much got wiped out. And no Karl Rove and the Bushies, you aren't getting 'your party' back.
I don’t think we will ever know the damage done to our party by the murder of Charlie Kirk. But it’s great I’d wager.
Also proving Stalin knew what he was talking about. He said: “real power comes out of the muzzle of a long rifle”.
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