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If Democrats Don’t Win Georgia’s Senate Seats, The Hardest Hit Will Be Their Socialist Squad; That's Why Republicans MUST WIN the Georgia Senate run-off in January 2021
The Federalist ^ | 11/10/2020 | Jonathan S. Tobin

Posted on 11/10/2020 9:44:50 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez might be Republicans’ least-favorite Democrat, but at least she’s honest about Democrats’ failures in the 2020 election. The New York congresswoman confided her frustration to The New York Times over the weekend, and it’s clear the election results have left her in the dumps.

Other New York leftists took to the streets to engage in mass revelry about President Donald Trump’s reported defeat, but AOC doesn’t seem to feel like celebrating. As far as Ocasio-Cortez is concerned, 2020 will go down as a historic defeat for democratic socialism, and it’s a toss-up whether the congresswoman will mount a primary challenge to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in 2022 or simply walk away from the political establishment and “start a homestead somewhere.”

Amid the media’s merriment in prematurely declaring a Trump defeat, many have obscured a fact that AOC has realized: Democrats performed dismally in congressional elections this year, resulting in dim prospects that any part of her radical agenda will be enacted in the coming Congress.

So long as Republicans retain their Senate majority, their fears of a Biden presidency and a Democrat-controlled Congress transforming America won’t be realized. Furthermore, a Republican Senate would relieve Joe Biden of any obligation to listen to the radicals who loyally backed him despite their misgivings about what they might achieve should he be elected.

If Democrats Win in Georgia…

The last variable in the 2020 puzzle will be resolved on Jan. 5 during runoff elections for Georgia’s two U.S. Senate seats. Between now and then, Georgia will become the center of the political world. Democrats are probably rated underdogs in both contests, but they still have a chance to win either, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. If Democrats succeed, that would create a 50-50 tie in the Senate that would be resolved in favor of the Democrats if Kamala Harris gets sworn in as vice president.

A Democratic Senate majority is a nightmare scenario for conservatives. Should that occur, there’s little doubt Democrats there will blow up the institution and the Constitution.

Given such an opportunity, Democrats have said they would end the filibuster for legislation and pack the Supreme Court with an extra four leftist justices to outvote the current 6-3 conservative majority that Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell created. They’d also likely try to grant statehood to the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and even the U.S. Virgin Islands to add more senators, who would almost certainly be Democrats, to establish a possibly permanent leftist majority.

Democrats would also be in a position to pass radical legislation including AOC’s pet project, the Green New Deal, an agenda of environmental extremism that would sink an economy reeling from COVID-19 shutdowns in a morass of debt and rationed energy. If so, then AOC and her leftist Squad, not to mention Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, will have the whip over Biden. Any reluctance to radicalism on his part would probably be swept aside by the zeal of crusading left-wingers who would likely carry the increasingly belligerent Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with them.

It’s more likely, however, that a GOP campaign fueled by a desperate effort to preserve constitutional government against the radicals will succeed in pushing either David Perdue or Kelly Loeffler or both over the finish line to keep McConnell in the majority leader’s seat. If that happens, Ocasio-Cortez and company will get nothing out of the next Congress except more frustration and anger. As AOC’s Times interview made clear, she is painfully aware of what lies ahead for the left in a Biden presidency without Democratic control of Congress.

The AOC Schtick Doesn’t Work Everywhere

Democrats have maintained a facade of unity all year over mutual disdain for Trump, but their failure to increase their numbers in the House, as Republicans flipped several seats rather than suffering massive losses as leftist pollsters predicted, has exposed a growing rift in their ranks.

Pelosi won back the speaker’s chair in 2018 by virtue of her party nominating moderates in swing districts throughout the country that flipped red seats blue. In 2020, however, with Trump’s presence at the top of the ticket mobilizing high GOP turnout in such districts, many of those moderate Democrats lost.

As far as Rep. Conor Lamb, D-Pa. — the poster child for centrist Democrats who barely held on to his seat this year — is concerned, his party suffered because of AOC and the radicals. Despite Biden’s win, most of these Democrats had to answer questions about whether they shared the Squad’s convictions about defunding the police, critical race theory, and massive spending programs.

AOC would say the moderates are losers who don’t know how to run a modern campaign and that they have problems because they are a lite version of the GOP rather than a clear alternative. But like other Squad members, AOC runs in a deep blue district where her only possible competition would be in a primary.

Since control of the House rests on the Democrats’ ability to convince voters that they have nothing to do with avowed socialists like Ocasio-Cortez, her advice means little to Lamb or other centrists such as Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., who also said on a party conference call, “We need to not ever use the word ‘socialist’ or ‘socialism’ ever again. … We lost good members because of that. If we are classifying Tuesday as a success … we will get f-cking torn apart in 2022.”

The Left Is the Biggest Loser of 2020

Despite their bouts of pandering to the radicals, it’s likely that Schumer, Pelosi, and Biden are more interested in the opinions of Lamb and Spanberger than that of AOC. They know that a GOP with a strong populist working-class base will be in a position to win back the House in 2022 while holding its ground in the Senate if, as is usually the case, the party out of power capitalizes on disenchantment with the incumbent president.

That leaves little room for Ocasio-Cortez and the other radicals to accomplish much in the coming years. With nothing to lose, it’s likely that the Squad and its allies will cease cooperating with the moderates and push even harder against them on key issues. The party base wants a revolution, but its leaders just want to hold on to power. That’s a formula not just for internecine strife but for a party implosion that will further weaken Biden and the Democrats’ congressional leaders.

As for those who expect AOC to go homesteading rather than keep her congressional seat or challenge Schumer in 2022, don’t bet on it. Unlike the Democrats’ leaders, she’s not interested in building a moderate majority. Though she and her fellow radicals held their noses for Biden in order to beat Trump, she’d rather a schism than to compromise on her socialist goals now that a radical legislative agenda is probably not on the table yet.

While Democrats are dancing in the streets about their belief that Trump is defeated, the future for their party might be one of strife and losing further ground during a Biden presidency. The far left might turn out to be the biggest loser of 2020. One thing is certain: Their influence will grow inside party ranks even if their policy goals remain pipe dreams. That’s a formula not only for a more radical Democratic Party but also for more general election defeats.


Jonathan S. Tobin is a Senior Contributor at The Federalist, Editor in Chief of JNS.org and a contributing writer for National Review.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: democrats; georgia; senate; thesquad

1 posted on 11/10/2020 9:44:50 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

We need to focus on GA starting now.

Even if Trump gets his 2nd term it WILL be a short one if we lose these two GA seats.

The presidential election 2020 is in the hands of Trump’s lawyers and the courts and no longer in the hands of the voters.

The GA seats and the election in January are STILL in OUR hands


2 posted on 11/10/2020 9:48:03 AM PST by tsowellfan (https://twitter.com/cafenetamerica)
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To: SeekAndFind

there’s probably 500,000 lefties changing their address to ‘move’ to GA to vote


3 posted on 11/10/2020 9:48:37 AM PST by wny
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To: wny

RE: there’s probably 500,000 lefties changing their address to ‘move’ to GA to vote

OK, let’s grant that. How do we COUNTER this potential and imminent fraud?


4 posted on 11/10/2020 9:50:55 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

If we don’t stop the computer hacking / tampering that we have seem in VA, WI, MI, TX, KY, PA, etc, they will be stolen. The theft either stops now, or it is as pointing voting in here as it was in USSR.


5 posted on 11/10/2020 9:55:39 AM PST by rigelkentaurus
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To: SeekAndFind

And the unchecked vote fraud can now just be ignored? This is just silly. Republicans need to stay home. Let’s stop pretending the republican party is a real party. They will love to work with Biden. They will give him every major thing he asks for. Let the democrats take control of everything. With no republicans to blame for the lack of free stuff there will be a civil war in the democrat party that may tear it apart permanently.


6 posted on 11/10/2020 9:59:51 AM PST by McCarthysGhost (q)
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To: SeekAndFind

If you are in Georgia for three weeks, you can register to vote. Just saying.


7 posted on 11/10/2020 10:01:19 AM PST by cicero2k
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To: tsowellfan

Yes indeed! We need both seats!


8 posted on 11/10/2020 10:01:44 AM PST by fortheDeclaration
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s silly to believe that after the wholesale fraud on November 3rd, the Democrats will stop at the 5-yard line, stop cheating, and let the GOP win those seats.

Fight and expose fraud.


9 posted on 11/10/2020 10:03:54 AM PST by Ted Grant
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To: tsowellfan

Bull crap... if Trump loses the presidency the seats are in play and important. Kind of...

If Trump wins the Presidency only one of those seats will be in play with David Purdue out of the runoff column (he would become the clear winner). And another senate seat John James will be added to the win column.

So, if Trump loses, to hell with it. Let the Dems steal the Senate and Presidency. Republicans deserve it for not fighting hard for Trump.


10 posted on 11/10/2020 10:03:55 AM PST by BushCountry (thinks he needs a gal whose name doesn't end in ".jpg")
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To: SeekAndFind
If the voter fraud is allowed to stand in the Presidential race, who is to say the same fraud won't flip these seats to Democrats?

That's why voter fraud on the level it occurred in the Presidential race can't be allowed to stand.

11 posted on 11/10/2020 10:07:29 AM PST by Kazan
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To: BushCountry

Perdue, Loeffler and Collins are all fighting in GA for Trump right now.

The same flawed voting system that was used to vote for Trump will be used again + all the dems moving here to vote.

We have to win the recount for Trump and the senate


12 posted on 11/10/2020 10:07:54 AM PST by LilFarmer
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To: BushCountry

“If Trump wins the Presidency only one of those seats will be in play with David Purdue out of the runoff column (he would become the clear winner). And another senate seat John James will be added to the win column.”

That would be great! Hopefully all will turn out.

But if Trump does not win and we also lose the Senate, does that not increase the chances of court packing and all the other socialist proposals that are on their list with a democrat SUPER majority?


13 posted on 11/10/2020 10:15:21 AM PST by tsowellfan (https://twitter.com/cafenetamerica)
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To: BushCountry
So, if Trump loses, to hell with it. Let the Dems steal the Senate and Presidency. Republicans deserve it for not fighting hard for Trump.

"Republicans deserve it" - well maybe they would and maybe they wouldn't - the real question is - do *we* deserve it? Do we deserve to have a far Left Supreme Court for the rest of our lives through court packing and DC statehood?

The "Republicans" would just get lucrative lobbying jobs and rake in cash if they lose - living the high life. We would have to suffer the consequences the most by giving them what they supposedly "deserve." So think of who you are really sticking it to.

14 posted on 11/10/2020 10:20:44 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: SeekAndFind

Chances of both GA senate seats going to Dems = somewhere North of 100%


15 posted on 11/10/2020 10:25:16 AM PST by Parrotboy (In it....for some change)
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To: Republican Wildcat
We would have to suffer the consequences the most by giving them what they supposedly "deserve." So think of who you are really sticking it to.

I guess we are supposed to be dutifully little puppies and still preform after our master RINOs kicked us? The Republicans are abusing us as much if not more then the Democrats.

16 posted on 11/10/2020 10:31:54 AM PST by BushCountry (thinks he needs a gal whose name doesn't end in ".jpg")
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, it should not take place until they can guarantee it to be 100% free of fraud.


17 posted on 11/10/2020 11:32:08 AM PST by Captainpaintball
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To: Parrotboy

No way Trump could lose GA either, but enough fraud can do the trick.


18 posted on 11/10/2020 11:53:12 AM PST by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m thinking that the registration rolls in GA should be purged of all fraudulent registrations.

If that would happen IMMEDIATELY, they wouldn’t have enough ‘voters’ to win either seat.


19 posted on 11/10/2020 11:54:35 AM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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To: SeekAndFind

>> President Donald Trump’s reported defeat

This is untrue. Pure propaganda.


20 posted on 11/10/2020 11:56:05 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
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