Bad News for Progressives: It's Still a Conservative Country
By: Stephen Moore
The GOP had a great Election Day. Gains across the board except where fraud occurred. Trumpism is alive and well!
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Source: AP Photo/Evan Vucci
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.
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Democrats really miscalculated. They thought unlimited money and media support could buy a blue wave and a supposed progressive mandate. . Instead they somehow managed to lose seats and just narrowly beat the most personally unpopular presidential candidate in history.
What's astounding is the total lack of self reflection. They'll never have a more favorable landscape than they've had the last four years and their embrace of left wing radicalism and identity politics saved the Republicans. And yet they soldier on with Pelosi and Co obliviously marching to the same tune that will hand the House to the Republicans in two years on a platter.
Lucky for them white males turned on Trump, offsetting their losses among minorities or even Trump would have been reelected.
I know people are fans of him, but this result just goes to show you how toxic Trump is with the things he says and the way he says them. To see such big gains across the country and lose the White House is a pretty clear repudiation of the man, not so much the policies or philosophies of government.
I will say that some of the credit goes to the media and Washington Democrats. They have done an impressive job of demonizing Trump beyond what I think he deserved. However, he gave them plenty to work with.
That's funny. The last four years that exact map was all red. And all we got from the left was "not my President". But conservatives, for the most part, won't use that same bullshit in reverse. See the difference there? Surely you must.
That is not true Jim. The "not my President" was from a vocal minority and the same will hold true with a vocal minority of conservatives. Uber-partisans behave the same basic way regardless of party.
I think you are exaggerating to the extreme.
Where did I claim it was?
Let me know when you hear/read that...............anywhere. Thanks...........................
That is not something that is subject to a poll. Here one must go by common sense and decades of observation.
There are 328+ million people in the USA. Thousands of vocal Americans chanting 'not my President' does not even cause a blip. My phrase 'vocal minority' was generous. It was a 'tiny vocal minority'.
Most people are not on the extreme. We go by our daily lives like adults and do not engage in petulant, pointless, counter-productive 'not my President' nonsense.
I did not see anything extreme under Trump (again, thousands is a blip) and do not expect to see it under Biden.
Yeah, that correlates with ‘vocal’.
Have you noticed that this is the rally for the Georgia senators? How much time does Trump dwell on himself vs. those senators?
The man is likely a malignant narcissist; not someone to admire.
If your god is for Trump, your god is a fool.
Well, some people actually believe God chooses our leaders. Which means God realized he made a mistake with Trump and replaced him with Biden. I'll bet the majority who believe that also complain about Biden being elected. Which is the same as saying they disagree with God's choice. So in effect, they're questioning God's judgement.
Per the belief, Biden is God's choice this year.
that's right. thumpers have pissed god off and he's punishing them now. bummer.
Bad news for Trump cultists: It's still a democracy.
When did our republic become a democracy?
A Republic is inherently based on representative democracy.
We are a representative Democracy organized as a federated constitutional Republic.
We are both. The names of the two major parties should not come as a surprise.