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If the Republican Party wants to learn the correct lessons from tonight there are a few things they need to understand:
1. Lin Wood and Sidney Powell had little to no impact on the Senate elections. They people who are ardently devoted to this line of thinking were never...
1. Lin Wood and Sidney Powell had little to no impact on the Senate elections. They people who are ardently devoted to this line of thinking were never...
...going to turn out without Donald Trump on the ticket to begin with. Get off this scapegoat.
2. The GOP is going to have to contend with this “Trump gap” - the people who simply are not interested without him on the ticket. Taking the cowards way out & just blaming him for...
2. The GOP is going to have to contend with this “Trump gap” - the people who simply are not interested without him on the ticket. Taking the cowards way out & just blaming him for...
...all failings will only compound this issue even further. A backslide into what made the party perpetual losers with poor future prospects will be a total disaster.
3. The American people were repulsed & insulted at the coronavirus stimulus package put together by the DC...
3. The American people were repulsed & insulted at the coronavirus stimulus package put together by the DC...
...Elite that this was a bipartisan deal, that the WH was involved, “everyone agreed”, etc. means nothing. Regular people do not give a flying fuck about this. The details of the deal (namely the $600) were not widely known or public until the end. And it pissed people off...
...The Senate R insistence on doubling down on this was extremely damaging. Many want to lay the blame at Trump’s feet for demanding $2k stimulus after the fact. This would imply that the American people took their cue from Trump, when in fact it was the other way around.
4. There has been a massive failure to take the mass expansion of vote by mail seriously among Republicans. Not only that but the insistence on seeing the “fraud” angle through only the prism of Trump and the most outlandish has led many to dismiss the very notion. Big mistake...
...what this effectively does it now solidifies the VBM position because it becomes beyond the pale to suggest that illegitimate activity that can affect outcomes is even possible. There’s a reason Democrats have fought so hard for this for so long. And 2020 proved is a...
...resounding “success.” As I said elsewhere recently, the fraud MAGA zealots and the “dismissers” are effectively the exact same. Two sides of the same coin. Trump obsessed. Make the mistake of not taking this seriously at your own peril. Re-center the conversation from Trump.
5. Inability to detach Trump from Trumpism. I suspect that the lesson of many will be that the changes in view and approach Trump brought to the Republican Party will be chalked up as failures Bc he lost. That it was 2016 that was the fluke, not the pandemic year with mass...
...vote by mail. The platform itself (Trumpism) is largely a winner. Find a better messenger. Figure out a way to channel what allowed Trump to take the country by storm without as many of the warts. Or go back to Bush/McCain/Romney and see where that gets everyone.
