This forum loves to crap on any politician that doesn't breathe fire and scream their fealty to Trump or a preferred political position, but there are some decent, hardworking politicians out there outside of that mold who are actually doing good work, and I'd much rather have a politician who is going to agree with my positions 60% of the time and wins elections than one who takes the donations, loses in a landslide, but agrees with my positions 100%.
In Maryland, Larry Hogan is probably about as good as you're going to see in a statewide republican candidate. Andy Harris won't be Governor or Senator in Maryland. Dan Bongino and Kim Klacik should still try to run their races and use their national celebrity to make local outreach and turn perennial D+27 districts (where the dem candidates never have to really try for reelection in the general) into consistent D+8 seats (where the dem candidates might actually have to show up to a debate and spend some of their warchest locally in a wave year), but expecting them to flip solid blue seats in a single election is just genie wishing and a waste of campaign donations.
Maybe we can turn seats held by Dhimmicraps with zero or near zero ratings into 20 percent ratings. It’s still bad, but if we could do that with a lot of deep blue seats, we’d win more votes and more battles.
Right now, Hogan is about as good as it gets in Maryland. Unfortunately. However, he has done some good. (He’s also done things I don’t like.) We need to chip away and move the state gradually right.
One such matter is redistricting. If Hogan’s plan were adopted, they would be fair districts. The legislature’s plan is an unconstitutional gerrymander.