Ok, I’m back, after a 16 hour day working at the polls (which, happy to say, was virtually uneventful; just people voting).
Now let’s talk about the Republican victory. The presidency, the senate majority and, it seems virtually certain, retention of the house majority as well.
This was, in my opinion less a victory for Donald Trump (who is the single luckiest candidate in US history regarding the people he has run against) than it was a victory against what the Democrat Party has become.
Democrats used to be known as the party of inclusion, the party of the working person, the party of fairness where a person’s merit/capabilities were valued above that person’s skin color or national origin.
And what has it become? The party of wildeyed wokeism, the party of tech billionaires and hard leftists with an agenda, the party where skin color and/or national origin pushes a person ahead of the pack – while pushing White people (who are villains based on their skin color) and Asians to the back of the line.
Did you ever in your lifetime think Republicans would emerge – partly by changing internally and partly by default of Democrats – as the party of the working person? The middle class? The value of merit over ethnicity?
Yet that is what Republicans now are, at least compared to today’s Democrat Party. And, for at least the next two years, it is going to hurt Democrat partisans. Badly.
But there is good news for Democrats as well.
The whomping they took yesterday will cause – force – them to rethink what the party has become. It will be the basis for demoting/rejecting the Nancy Pelosi/Chuck Schumer/Adam Schiff/Jamie Raskin crowd; the people who have led them down this disastrous path.
Maybe it will result in Democrats returning to the values that made them a far better choice than they have become. Maybe they will learn from yesterday and change/revise accordingly.
Maybe. We’ll see.
Oh, one other thing. Do you think anyone on either side of the aisle will miss Kamala Harris or Tim Walz? I sure don’t.
