11-09-2022, 06:16 PM
I'm grateful for the lack of a red wave. I'm a little apprehensive about the outcome.
The GOP will now be ultra-motivated to distance itself from Trump. If they really want to, they could just get out of the way and let the legal issues he's dealing with run their course. The base may even finally come to this conclusion with a ready-made heir like DeSantis in line.
I sincerely hope this doesn't embolden Biden for another run. He's not overly popular even in his own party. A non freaskhow candidate would have a clear path to the presidency of he's the opposition and the economy doesn't find it's way.
It's gotta sting badly for the far right. The crazy finally caught up to them. Their energized, frothing base keeps taking ass-whoopings from Mr. Magoo. In this economy with a president that as unpopular as Biden, the GOP should have walked into control relatively casually and with sizable numbers.
My take is that even in a crap economy with a general national fog of despair, a lot of Americans still don't want authoritarianism and conspiracy theories determining our future. If the Republicans ran on fixing the economy and nothing else, they'd have won. If Trump left gracefully and let reasonable GOP leaders take the reigns, they'd be celebrating right now.
It's time to move on from the weird populist batshittery that was Trumpism and get back to hating each other for normal issues rather than made up bullshit.
The GOP will now be ultra-motivated to distance itself from Trump. If they really want to, they could just get out of the way and let the legal issues he's dealing with run their course. The base may even finally come to this conclusion with a ready-made heir like DeSantis in line.
I sincerely hope this doesn't embolden Biden for another run. He's not overly popular even in his own party. A non freaskhow candidate would have a clear path to the presidency of he's the opposition and the economy doesn't find it's way.
It's gotta sting badly for the far right. The crazy finally caught up to them. Their energized, frothing base keeps taking ass-whoopings from Mr. Magoo. In this economy with a president that as unpopular as Biden, the GOP should have walked into control relatively casually and with sizable numbers.
My take is that even in a crap economy with a general national fog of despair, a lot of Americans still don't want authoritarianism and conspiracy theories determining our future. If the Republicans ran on fixing the economy and nothing else, they'd have won. If Trump left gracefully and let reasonable GOP leaders take the reigns, they'd be celebrating right now.
It's time to move on from the weird populist batshittery that was Trumpism and get back to hating each other for normal issues rather than made up bullshit.
