Posted on 11/08/2018 12:42:54 PM PST by therightliveswithus
If there’s one thing that the left is consistently poor at, it’s managing expectations. Since President Trump’s inauguration, his opponents hung their fortunes on the idea of a massive blue wave to sweep away congressional Republicans in the midterms. Instead, we saw a modest Democratic gain in the House of Representatives and a strong Republican gain in the Senate. Democrats lost crucial races where they ran candidates too far left to carry moderate or conservative districts; it was moderate Democrats who had the best shots, while most of the hardcore leftists lost race after race Tuesday.
The left believed that the midterms would be a bellwether for 2020. In many ways, it is — if the party can tack towards the middle instead of pushing for ideological purity.
Just about every pollster and op-ed predicted a massive sweep for blue candidates across the nation. In states where Democrats needed a commanding majority, they actually lost ground. Gains in some parts of the Rust Belt, like Pennsylvania, were matched by losses in Ohio and Indiana. Democrats lost many of these tight races because they nominated candidates well outside of the mainstream. Democrats tried to run the table and found fewer wins in states that were not already left-leaning. The party won impressive victories in New Mexico, Virginia and Colorado. However, this base-only effort largely failed to reach out to independent and moderate voters that Democrats won over in 2006 and 2008. In several notable examples, candidates who aligned themselves with the progressive Bernie Sanders wing of the party lost winnable races.
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CHHHIT with all the cheating they really?!! s/
Oops..meant to say with all the cheating they do ..really?! You jest!!
We’re going to get it back in 2020. The Democrats are going to display to everyone what mob rule looks like. Between that and the economy going gangbusters, they’ll lose bigly.
Their margin is going to be very thin as it is.
The Democrats are going to escalate mob rule and guerilla tactics beyond anything ever seen before in the history of American politics.
I'm not a pie-in-the-sky optimist, but I believe that is an accurate statement. The Democrat Party has been almost completely co-opted by Marxists. It is nearly complete.
You watch. The very next generation of Democrats will be full throated Marxists. Once Biden dies off along with Pelosi, Feinstein, and the other very senior Party apparatchiks, Democrats will accept nothing short of fascism/Marxism.
I hope you’re right but regardless, as long as Trump wins another term, I’m happy.
Ping.
We mustn’t get complacent.
Case and point:
Conor Lamb. Their Great White Hope here in Western PA.
A moderate-sounding guy who claims he’s “a new kind of Dem who will never vote in lockstep with Nancy Pelosi”.
He will soon be facing a vote on Trump’s impeachment. It will end his career, one way or another. Either he’ll vote yea and his district will turn on him, or vote no and suffer the wrath of the moonbats.
You watch. The very next generation of Democrats will be full throated Marxists. Once Biden dies off along with Pelosi, Feinstein, and the other very senior Party apparatchiks, Democrats will accept nothing short of fascism/Marxism.
I agree. Organizations and movements almost never turn away from extremism once they go down that path. Unless, of course, there is an outside force that turns them away, like Eisenhower and SHAEF.
The only peaceful example I know of is when William F. Buckley kicked the Birchers out of the Conservative Movement. By doing so, he began the process of rebuilding Conservatism.
I think in twenty years Alexandria Octavio-Cortez will be considered a mainstream Democrat.
Their vaunted “blue wave” mainly featured the Tidy Bowl man. Hahahahaha.
There were 23 Democrat Senate seats up this year, compared to only 8 Republican seats. They actually did pretty well to only lose 2 or 3 net, depending how many they are able to steal in the next week of recounts.
In 2020, there are 22 Republican Senate seats up, and only 12 Democrat seats. 2020 is going to be a very tough year and Trump is going to need some big coattails to hold the Senate.
The Democrats have to remember: they won the House but by a narrow margin. There are still going to be a lot of Republicans around. Hopefully this will make for checks & balances.
But will the Dems clean up their act? Not unless they get rid of the punks, pansies, & purple-haired ladies who co-opted them.
Don't senators run every 6 yrs? He might remain unaffected. It's whoever runs in 2024.
He might remain unaffected. Who?
It's whoever runs in 2024. What does that have to do with 2020?
When you mention him “holding onto the Senate,” I figured the Senate is majority GOP for now & presumably loyal. Until next election time for senators — 2024.
The Senate seats revolve - a third of them are up for re-election every two years.
Again, we only had 8 up this year, while the DNC had 23. In 2020, that reverses and we have 22 seats up, they only have 12.
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