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Posted on 08/06/2026 3:38:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Unelectable candidates hurt Republicans then. Now Democrats are building a similar slate.
Before the 2022 midterms, most observers were expecting a red wave to sweep Democrats from power on Capitol Hill. President Joe Biden’s approval rating had plummeted thanks to his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, the highest inflation in 40 years and the worst border crisis in U.S. history, among other disasters. The only question seemed to be: How big would the GOP victory be?
It didn’t turn out that way. Biden had one of the best midterm performances of any president since John F. Kennedy. What happened? The GOP saddled itself with a slate of unelectable Senate candidates — such as Herschel Walker in Georgia, Blake Masters in Arizona and Don Bolduc in New Hampshire — who lost winnable races.
Now, four years later, the reverse might be happening. The Democratic Socialists of America and their far-left allies are engaged in a hostile takeover of the Democratic Party, and they are busily putting together a slate of candidates to rival those 2022 Republicans.
Some Democrats dismiss the hard-left threat, saying that all they’re doing is making blue states and districts bluer. But Michigan is not a blue state. It is a purple state that President Donald Trump won twice. Democrats need a net gain of four seats to win back the Senate. If they don’t hold on to the Michigan seat being vacated by retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters, their chances could slip out of reach.
So, who did Democrats turn to for this critical task? On Tuesday, they nominated Abdul El-Sayed — a radical leftist who campaigned with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and other prominent democratic socialists, champions...
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Marc A. Thiessen’s Washington Post opinion piece (published August 6, 2026) argues that Democrats, driven by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and far-left allies, are repeating the Republican Party’s 2022 midterm mistake by nominating unelectable radical candidates in key races.
In 2022, despite President Biden’s low approval (tied to Afghanistan, inflation, and the border), Republicans underperformed because of weak Senate candidates such as Herschel Walker (Georgia), Blake Masters (Arizona), and Don Bolduc (New Hampshire) who lost winnable seats. Biden ultimately had one of the stronger midterm performances for a president since JFK.
Thiessen contends the reverse is now underway. Democrats need a net gain of four Senate seats. Michigan (a purple state Trump won twice) is critical after Sen. Gary Peters’s retirement, yet Democrats nominated Abdul El-Sayed—a Sanders-aligned figure with DSA event history who denies formal affiliation and appeared with influencer Hasan Piker (criticized for past statements on 9/11, Hamas, and the USSR). El-Sayed will face former Rep. Mike Rogers, who nearly beat Elissa Slotkin previously.
In Maine, Democrats initially backed Graham Platner (described as a radical leftist with a Nazi tattoo); after allegations derailed him, they turned to Troy Jackson, another left-wing former state senator who finished third in a gubernatorial primary. In Texas, after Republicans nominated the scandal-plagued Ken Paxton, Democrats chose state Rep. James Talarico (noted for progressive statements on God, the Virgin Mary/abortion, and a prior “nonmeat” campaign in a major cattle state).
Thiessen calls this the “Mamdani fallacy”—the belief that nominating candidates like New York’s socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani to energize the radical base will work outside deep-blue areas, rather than moving toward the center. He argues mainstream Democrats enabled the shift: Biden campaigned as a moderate but governed left; positions on the border, filibuster, and Supreme Court packing increasingly overlap with DSA goals, with socialists simply being more explicit.
Republicans have self-inflicted problems too (Paxton, Tillis’s retirement in North Carolina, toss-up ratings for Alaska and Ohio). Still, Thiessen concludes that midterms may favor the out-party, but reclaiming swing states and the White House will require Democrats to pursue less socialism and more triangulation.
Herschel Walker was so unelectable he lost 51% to 49%. I’m sure there was no vote fraud in that election. 🙄
You have to admire the revolutionaries. They may shy away from it now, but in their past statements they’ve been absolutely clear about what they have in store for us. Even Mamdani, in the past, has sued the magic words “seize the means of production” for how envisions all this to be going. I’ll cautiously agree with this article.
GA is weird.
Walker was a god in GA. As usual, the GOPe didn’t help.
Back then it was Mitch. Now it’s Mitch Worse - Thune.
We attended the Paxton rally in McKinney two nights ago. Imagine 700-800 people crowding into a restaurant that holds 500 people at most. It was held at rush hour, with temperatures exceeding 100 degrees.
Closest parking I could find was a quarter of a mile away. I think that demonstrates Paxton's support is much wider and deeper than the polls are giving him credit for. None of my family/in laws voted for Cornyn in the primary. We're focused on what Paxton will do for Texas in the Senate, and don't dwell on his past issues.
Sure hope you are right. Texas is far too important a State to lose to the likes of Preacher Poofter and those who share his “values.”
How is what the DSA is doing any different than what Occupy Wall Street did, or what Black Lives Matter did?
Just the same old grift in a different package.
No one seems to be acknowledging the elephant in the room, the endemic Democrat mail-in voter fraud that we are seeking to stop. Absent that, 2022 could have been much different.
Well...these Democrats will have one major thing those Republicans in 2022 did not have: mountains of cash as the base forks it over by the truckload to their campaigns. Our base celebrated "beating the establishment" in the primary, and then sat on their behinds and left all of those candidates twisting in the wind with no way to defend themselves against a massive onslaught or mount any significant campaigns whatsoever. It appears we are doing it again in Texas this year.
If you are referring to the NRSC and McConnell's PAC, that is false. They both spent enormous amounts of money and time there trying to help him win.
But whatever they do is supplemental support. It cannot be the main game. If the base does not fund the candidates, we are at a disadvantage, regardless of what Super PACs do.
I see a similar outcome here, and I expect Elon to send money Paxton's way. The anti-Talarico vote will turn out in November.
The NRSC is probably short on cash, after spending $90 million to prop up Cornyn in the primary and runoff.
That’s not what I read.
"The NRSC is heading into November with its highest-ever cash on hand, reporting $48.8 million in the bank—nearly $8 million more than this point last cycle."
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Your "$90 million" figure would be very difficult to be even remotely true, if $48.8 million is their record cash on hand and that they had supposedly just spent $90 million in a single primary race.
The amount spent on Cornyn came from articles I read on FreeRepublic. I’ll look for another source.
I'm not sure how that is possible and the information was and is widely known:
Of course you can find many more articles like this.
But Warnock himself vastly outraised Walker - Warnock's base supported him, the GOP base did not support Walker - a common theme for these races in the last several election cycles.
Maybe all combined Super PACs against Paxton / for Cornyn is where you are getting that figure.
14 million was couch change. Thus my point. They didn’t go all in for 2022 in GA.
Lost both seats to Dems.
They over spend on Rinos.
A waste of money propping up Cornyn this year.
And they always held back with Cruz v. Before twice.
That’s the last thing I’m going to do.
2020 and 2022 elections were manipulated obviously. Now that it is coming back to haunt the Dems and there anti-US policy, they are screaming unelectable candidates.
It is going to be horrible for the democrats.
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