Posted on 11/11/2020 10:13:32 AM PST by Kaslin
Even as people spilled into the streets of Washington D.C. over the weekend to celebrate the proclaimed defeat of President Trump, political insiders on the Left were feeling a bit unsatisfied. This was supposed to be their year. All the stars had aligned for that big blue wave to usher in their wildest progressive dreams.
No one doubts that Trump was polarizing. He energized opposition unlike anyone before him and, thanks to the coronavirus, it wasn’t just his hyperactive Twitter feed that was the problem. The nation was struggling. The pandemic wreaked psychological havoc on the country and had destroyed 30 million jobs. News stations kept a running toll of dead bodies from the coronavirus and tried to make sure President Trump was held personally responsible for each one of them. When things are going poorly, incumbent presidents are held responsible. This is the stuff that political landslides are made of.
Of course, they wanted to remove Trump, but the Left wanted to do much more than that. They wanted a pound of flesh from everyone, at every level, who made Trump possible – and in doing so they expected to claim the long-awaited mandate for a wave of “progressive” reforms like the Green New Deal, court packing, a single-payer health care system, and the Equality Act. This was the dream; maybe even the expectation.
But none of it happened, at least not in the way they hoped.
Beyond proclaiming the defeat of Trump, the best news for Democrats was that they managed to barely hold onto control of the House of Representatives. But even this victory felt hollow since they had every expectation of significantly expanding their majority. As of this writing, Republicans have gained five seats in the House, but that number could easily be ten or more when the counting is finished.
The blame game has already begun in earnest. More moderate House Democrats believe left-wing affinity for socialism and talk of defunding the police are to blame. The far-left wing of the Democratic caucus believes they lost because they weren’t progressive enough. The conflict has Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wondering whether she even wants to be in politics anymore.
The Senate delivered similarly underwhelming results for progressivism. As of this writing, Democrats have gained one seat in the Senate, with two run-off races in Georgia looming in January. The best-case scenario for Democrats now is a tie in the Senate, but that isn’t likely.
Perhaps the best representation of how badly Democrats misread the room was in Kentucky and South Carolina where Democrats decided to invest $157 million in challenges to Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). Despite the record setting money spent against them, Graham won re-election by more than 10 percentage points, and McConnell by nearly 20.
As a result, Joe Biden is now preparing to be the first Democratic President since 1864 to enter office without a Democratic House and Senate. Biden had hoped for a mandate, but voters gave him handcuffs instead.
The Left’s electoral disappointments were not limited to Washington, D.C. When Barack Obama was elected in 2008, Democrats controlled both chambers of 27 state legislatures. When he left office, Republicans controlled both chambers in 27 state houses.
During the Obama Presidency, Democrats lost over 900 state legislative seats and 11 Governorships. 2020 was the year Democrats hoped to make up lost ground. They were confident that anti-Trump sentiment could be used to flip state legislatures that had been stubbornly held by Republicans for most of a decade.
It was especially important to accomplish that this year because next year state legislatures will be drawing new boundaries for Congressional districts, which will impact the political majorities in Washington D.C. for the next decade. Recognizing the seriousness of the situation, out-of-state funders poured more than $11 million into Texas state legislative races in support of Democrats.
Unfortunately for Democrats, the return on these funds was no better than the funds spend against Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell.
Republicans held control of every state legislative chamber they controlled prior to the election and even picked up control of legislative chambers in Montana and New Hampshire. It seems that “orange man bad” didn’t have the coat-tails they had hoped.
These aren’t just partisan victories for Republicans. In many cases, these are victories for candidates who care about faith, family, and freedom. The Republicans in Congress look to have added at least 14 additional pro-life women as a result of this election, including Michelle Fischbach in Minnesota and Yvette Harrell in New Mexico.
If voters rejected Trump in this election, they have rejected Leftism as well. Regardless of how you felt about Trump, that’s something to feel good about.
Perhaps Judge Jeanine Pirro, Laura Ingram, Kayleigh McEnany, T. Carlson, and Waters etc., should take that world and start their own News Station.
SMH...
No, I didn't say that.
I said the guy is Shapiro-lite-lite [note the TWO lites]. This puts him at a couple of removes from Benny the kidiot.
Obviously Shapiro is enough of a clueless anti-Trump political idiot to have voted for Hitlary! or abstained from voting for Trump in 2016.
I don't even like talking about that feckless snot-nose kid.
Please Copy and Repost! The Trump campaign is so busy now that we cannot assume that they are even AWARE of this!
https://noqreport.com/2020/11/11/data-deep-dive-on-dominion-voting-systems-offers-incontrovertible-proof-of-election-hack/
“ Wait until things are clearer. ”
Time will tell....I just hope we are not waiting too long to get physical.
Hope we don’t have to.
Thanks for addressing my comment, I’m having a pretty tough time with this.
That’s exactly what the Democrats want, you to get so disgusted with voting. They win.
“Not another “feel good about the fraudulent loss” article. If there was fraud, it cannot stand. It won’t get better.”
Worse yet, they’ve learned how to cheat big time and know how to do even better next time (fill out the ballets all for democrat, not just Biden).
Bump
As a result, Joe Biden is now preparing to be the first Democratic President since 1864 to enter office without a Democratic House and Senate.
Stay frosty, but all is not lost. Recounts are popping up all over, and if there were any machine-count shenanigans, they are possibly going to be revealed.
If there is more delusional drivel it’s from you and no one else.
I would feel good except what if biden and Harris appoint more supreme court justices and tear down the walls and flood the country with wetbacks. I could see the above point. I mean with 70% of the GOP thinking the election was stolen they will be sure to turn out two and four years from now. Not to mention opposition will be vociferous right from the start.
Good article except for the “Democratic President in 1864”. He botched that one.
Doesn’t matter: They can win any and as many elections that they need to. Period.
I question the predicate.
Hmm no one else? Mark Styen, Mark Levin, Steve Bannon, Lin Wood...I could keep going but whats the point.
This is the evolution of 'Rat cheating that concerns me most. Its been known a long time that 'Rats cheat in elections. But until recently they have made at least a half-hearted attempt to disguise it. Now, they don't care if we know they cheat. They are bold and brazen about it because they know no one will stop them, or work to rectify the injustice.
I mean how long have we just joked about the dead voting for Democrats, like it was just a given.
You are of course exactly correct, that's what they would prefer. That being said how are we ever going to win totally in your face rigged elections? In two years the socialists will control so much they won't even care if it's obvious to everyone it's rigged. Elections will be just for show from this point forward.
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