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https://www.theamericanconservative.com/its-still-about-the-base/

No red wave. Thats the headline everywhere this week.

Some people are disappointed; some are gloating; some are coping. Im closest to the first group, but Ive grown more optimistic over the course of these last few days.

With the notable exception of Senator J.D. Vance, everyone I liked who was locked in a tough race lost on Tuesday. Most of them lost big. But none of the losses is very difficult to explain, and none is much more difficult to resolve. There were plenty of surprises on Tuesday. But there arent really any mysteries.

First, some myths.

The red wave didnt fail because the GOP leaned too hard into the MAGA movement. For one thing, most of the hand-waving about ultra-mega-MAGA extremists this cycle hasnt actually been about the populist-nationalist conservatism signified by the slogan. Its been about election deniers, which is to say Republican candidates who dont get super excited about the shadow campaign to fortify the last election against a Trump victory.

One of the most prominent has been Kari Lake, the charismatic ex-TV host poised to defeat Katie Hobbs (who as secretary of state oversaw the controversial 2020 election) in the Arizona gubernatorial contest. Setting aside the fact that the vote-counting process has proven many of Lakes complaints about incompetence correct, plenty of other Trump loyalists have won or look poised to win their midterm contests too. If asking questions about 2020 is really such a killer, then all of these results will have to be explained.

Even Doug Mastriano, the other ultra-mega-MAGA boogeyman of regime media and Resistance Twitter, didnt lose because he was too radical. He lost because he refused to run a campaign. He won the primary and then vanished into thin air, handing a winnable race to a far-left holdover from the unpopular incumbent government by a margin of 14 points. He dragged Dr. Mehmet Oz down with him, though the latter might have lost regardless by virtue of being a liberal.

Another myth: the red wave didnt fail because of Dobbs. Even with the stain of Roe wiped away, none but the most fanatical adherents of the death cult went to the polls on Tuesday with preserving abortion at the top of their minds; opinion data have shown this time and time again. Plenty of pro-life incumbents were resoundingly reelected, and plenty of pro-abortion challengers were trounced.

The Republican Party lost this week for the same reason it always loses: its soft. Up against the party of infanticide and child mutilation and carnage in Ukraine, the best attack it could muster was ...Inflation! It tacked to the center in all but a handful of general election campaigns in the desperate hope that Janice, 53, who voted third party in 2020 and for Gretchen Whitmer in 2018 and for Romney/Ryan in 2012 might just cast a ballot for John Gibbs.

For all its posturing, the Republican party refuses to acknowledge that the culture war is a war, and needs to be fought like one. You can win a war by convincing enough of the enemy soldiers to come over to your side. Its possible, in theory. But how many wars in all of human history have actually been won that way?

There's more to the article, but I think you get the gist.

Did you just link to a racist website?

Thats a whole lot of self delusion and cope, I like to stay informed about what my political opponents think but most of the time it's not worth the effort to read.

tl,dr. We lost because we weren't far right or extremist enough.

That guy is a bad person and I hope they never vote again

did they try to stop The Count again?

Richard Nixons revival of traditional American conservatism delivered millions of blue-collar voters to a GOP nearly buried by radical liberal Barry Goldwater

Fucking what?

Started out well written and I thought it would be a moderate take from a real republican. Then this dude just slowly puts his pants on his head like no one would notice.

Soft Republicans made us lose! Call them murderers ya pussies!

Literally the "we weren't racist enough" meme

Cope

Typical double down on extremism

The guy who wrote this article is a nut.

I skimmed through some of his other articles and found this quote from him.

It was in middle school that I first learned that the people of an alien culture coexisting beside my own still sacrificed children to demons, and did so in temples that aped healthcare clinics with priests masquerading as medical doctors. My horror was instinctive and demanded some kind of action, and I spent much of my time in the years that followed praying at clinics and marching in protests and advocating for the unborn in what little ways I could.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/6/8/AAcI8BAAD35I.jpg

"Some people are disappointed; some are gloating; some are coping"

Indeed

wtf lol

Which out, you might get modded for show just how the right works.

PMarth2002 posted...

The guy who wrote this article is a nut.

The bad thing is he doesn't sound that much more nuttier than the average right winger though.