Posted on 12/01/2020 4:58:20 AM PST by Kaslin
It's not exactly clear how it happened. No one expected it, least of all the media and pollsters. But that promised big blue wave of Democratic victories across the country turned instead into a red tidal wave from coast to coast. Most progressive ballot issues in the states -- from tax increases to racial preferences -- also came crashing down.
A big reason for this turnaround in the election was the massive turnout for President Donald Trump on Election Day. The irony is that Trump's coattails pulled hundreds of Republicans over the goal line -- but as things currently stand, they didn't save him from a razor-tight defeat.
So, how deep were the losses for the Democrats? In the U.S. House, Nancy Pelosi thought her troops would gain 10 to 12 seats. Instead, they lost, at last count, nine.
But the real carnage was in the state houses. Hold on to your hats; here is the latest from our allies at the American Legislative Exchange Council. The GOP gained a total of 192 House and 40 Senate seats. Republicans flipped control of three chambers.
As a result of these big and improbable wins, Republicans now have majority control in both House and Senate chambers in 31 of 50 states. Democrats have control in only 18 states. That's a map of the USA that looks awfully red throughout middle America, with only the rusting Northeast and the West Coast colored blue.
What is truly stunning about this story is that Democrats and liberal/progressive donors (Michael Bloomberg, George Soros, Mark Zuckerberg, et al.) poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the states to take over legislatures with unprecedented spending in Florida, Texas and Pennsylvania. The American Legislative Exchange Council president, Lisa Nelson, estimates that Democrats outspent Republicans "at least 3-to-1 in the states." And all they got was a lousy T-shirt.
Money just doesn't buy you love with voters.
Speaking of money, voters don't want politicians taking more of it from them. In Illinois, Colorado and California, major tax hikes lost, and tax cuts were approved by voters. Racial preferences, rent control and pro-union measures went down in flames in California -- the cradle of progressive wacko ideas.
Even Democrats admit that their party's embrace of socialism was a major turnoff to voters. Rep. Abigail Spanberger from Virginia won her race, but she isn't a happy camper. "We need to not ever use the words 'socialist' or 'socialism' ever again," she says. Democrats, she angrily continued, "lost good members because of that."
Though litigation is ongoing, Republicans appear to have lost by a razor's edge the prize of the White House, which is a stinging defeat for conservatism. But no one in modern times has turned out voters like Donald J. Trump. Even USA Today admits that it was the big "Trump turnout" that swung state and local elections in a conservative direction.
If the Democrats govern as the party of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, they can expect even deeper losses in 2022. They may even suffer their ultimate nightmare, a return to the White House by Trump in 2024. Trumpism and putting America first are still alive and well.
Bad News for Conservatives
IT WON’T MATTER - Once the Dems win Georgia, and then using that, PACK THE COURTS and END THE FILIBUSTER, it will be game over for us. Even if we are still, somehow, the majority, the Democrats and their Courts will control our elections for decades, and they’ll only let us ‘win’ the elections of their choosing, in order to feign free elections to the rest of the world.
But I know, it is much more important to TEACH THE GOP A LESSON by not voting in Georgia, so that the Democrats have a free hand to do the above (and much more, starting with eliminating the Second Amendment).
Talk about a Circular Firing Squad on our side...
31 states is enough to ensure votes matter in those states.
That’s because we vacillate between electing Democrats who give us all the sh!t we want, and electing Republicans to make sure we don’t have to pay for it.
That’s not conservative at all. It’s called DECADENT by any objective measure.
If Biden is installed in the Oval Office, well...
There will be more losses in 2022 but they will all be Republican losses now that the left knows that they can steal an election and no one will do anything effective to stop it.
Major tax hikes lost in IL?
Tell it to Chicago.
I’m not impressed. It’s what the Republican majorities do that matters. Here in Pa. they haven’t done anything except bow down to Wolf and Shapiro.
Doesn’t matter if they cheat now does it! Only two options remain - give in and accept the oligarchy rule of the deep state, or we cheat more better than them. Sad...but unfortunately true.
BS.....America is no more. The end of free elections means there is no longer a free country much less a conservative country.
Absent a great rising up and a war with leftist blood spilled on the streets, there is no America. America has been stolen and is lost
There is no law,there is only forced order
They’ll let us win after they turn the country into Venezuela.
Just why does it matter that the Rs have the majority in the GA, PA, MI, WI and AZ legislatures? They have done NOTHING to investigate obvious vote fraud, speak with one voice against it, or even criticize the way the election was stolen.
“They’ll let us win after they turn the country into Venezuela.”
That’s my point - Iran still has 1000 or Jews living there, and they’re left alone. Obviously they only reason the Mullahs put up with them is because they serve propaganda purposes: “See, we’re a tolerant country, we have Jews!”
Conservative involves limited amounts and in the United States’ political lexicon means less spending.
Society today wants more public spending for public.pensions, health care, retirement subsidies, food and shelter, child care, etc...,however, want less taxes getting taken from their pay checks and stuff they buy.
I would say convoluted not conservative.
Silly. They tried to take our freedom and jobs away with Covid, then let mobs rule our city streets. All they really did was awaken us.
Trump’s legacy is three things:
1) A large shift in the federal judiciary towards more conservative values.
2) Revealing just how corrupt, slanted, and incompetent the “press” truly is.
3) Highlighting just how corrupt and prone to manipulation the election process is — and has been for a very long time; it’s just that the democrats vastly and arrogantly over-reached and became a self-parody.
You can make the case that Trump didn’t do all this deliberately, but in some cases semi-accidentally. Personally, I believe he’s a genius and had this all gamed out well in advance.
These three “illuminations” will echo for decades.
And, assuming Biden (and Kammy) ascend to the office, Trump isn’t finished. I think he’ll buy or create a conservative television channel — possibly delivered via streaming,, and free od gatekeeper Kable Kompanies.
...and then, there’s still 2024 — assuming America even survives to that point. By that time, The People should be sick & tired of rampant and unrestrained Liberalism run wild.
I’ll go with Lincoln: the American people may be slow, but they are not stupid.
Been saying that all year, but most refused to believe it would happen (steal the election). Not reading many comments indicating Trump will still be re-elected.
First of all, not the time to black pill.
Not saying you are wrong either.
Can’t wait to lose a few pounds due to the new craze, the Biden-Harris diet...modeled after the Maduro diet from Venezuela.
“First of all, not the time to black pill. Not saying you are wrong either.”
Understand. I still haven’t given up. Trump plans to go to Georgia to campaign for our Senate candidates, and try to KNOCK SOME SENSE into our people (who want the Democrat to win, to ‘teach the GOP a lesson’)...but it really looks to be an uphill climb, even for him.
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