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| Surber: Life after Trump |
| 2022-11-10 |
| [DonSurber] I was in a bubble this year. Tuesday's election busted it. Hope is the thing with feathers. We were plucked. We can talk about cheating and the fix being in and mail-in votes. We can go on and on about the deep state and the media. We can spend months in denial but the fact is, Americans do not want Donald John Trump to be their president. He did not save the Republican Party. He spent it. Ira Stoll was cold in his assessment of the election. He wrote, "Donald Trump is a drag in a general election in purple states. "In Georgia, Republican Governor Brian Kemp, who Trump doesn't like, won about 53% of the vote, while Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker, who Trump likes, was at 48% or 49% of the vote. Likewise, in New Hampshire, Governor Chris Sununu, who has distanced himself from Trump, won with about 57% of the vote, while Republican Senate candidate Dan Bolduc, a Trump fan, attracted only about 44% of the vote. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the Republican success story of the night, won reelection with roughly 59% of the vote despite being denounced by Trump as Ron De Sanctimonious. "There are some outliers—J.D. Vance won the Ohio Senate race despite being allied with Trump—but overall, it was not a good night for Trump. Perhaps this realization will make Republican primary voters think twice before choosing Trump-allied candidates, or Trump himself, in primaries in 2024." The truth is not a warm puppy. It often is a snowman standing on a glacier. This is one of those times. Read the rest at the link |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #27 Surber is dead to me now! |
| Posted by: Tyranysaurus Jones4656 2022-11-10 16:56 |
| #26 Trump is a Capitalist. NOT a politicion. THAT is why he won both elections. |
| Posted by: Sloluse Slutle9788 2022-11-10 15:17 |
| #25 MSNBC’s Katy Tur suggests Fetterman could run for president: 'Makes you wonder about his future' YJCMTSU |
| Posted by: One Eyed Clunk1873 2022-11-10 11:26 |
| #24 And that's the battlefield situation for Trump. The Uniparty has already shown what lengths they will go to to make sure Trump is not POTUS. They will do the same and more in 2024. The system currently in place is specifically designed to keep Trump out. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2022-11-10 10:57 |
| #23 Mitch McConnell has to be removed. but won’t be removed #UniPartyForever |
| Posted by: UniParty Forever 2022-11-10 10:37 |
| #22 I'd like to add to my comment at #11. Mitch McConnell has to be removed. He is responsible for failure to support primary winners. |
| Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 2022-11-10 10:31 |
| #21 #11 Trump's endorsement of non politicians to be politicians isn't always a good strategy. Oz has too many negatives to win, religion, carpetbagger, flip flopper. Walker screams dumb jock. So control of the US Senate comes down to Georgia electing a former UGA football player who can barely write his name on the ground with a stick. I voted for him in the primary and will hold my nose and vote again in the runoff. Not the kind of candidate to inspire people to turn out though. |
| Posted by: jpal 2022-11-10 10:22 |
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| Posted by: badanov 2022-11-10 10:06 |
#19 — Rothmus 🏴 (@Rothmus) November 10, 2022 |
| Posted by: badanov 2022-11-10 10:00 |
| #18 Their explicit strategy is to bring in millions of brown people from the global South so they can turn purple states deep blue and deep red states blue. Yup. Arizona and Georgia used to be solidly red states and are now swing states thanks to illegal immigration and ballot fixing. Texas is the Donks’ next target. Just 5-6 million more illegals and the Donks will have their own version of the Solid South. Game over. Easily achievable during the next two years at the current rate. |
| Posted by: Phereling Protector of the Mongol Horde7566 2022-11-10 09:55 |
| #17 Billy, Ves, Ches, Merc, P2k, and Rupe for the score. I never tire of reading the truth. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-11-10 09:32 |
| #16 * that Ruy Texeira and John Judis outlined "The Emerging Democratic Majority", 2004 |
| Posted by: Billy B 2022-11-10 09:32 |
| #15 the smart move would be to dump Kamala, get a new VP who can handle the border crisis You don’t know WTF you’re talking about, EC. What planet are you living on? The Democrats won’t even admit the existence of a border crisis, let alone make any effort to fix it. That’s by design. It’s the core of their “Emerging Democratic Majority” strategy that Ruy Texeira and John Judy’s outlined two decades ago. The Democrats have made it clear. Their explicit strategy is to bring in millions of brown people from the global South so they can turn purple states deep blue and deep red states blue. California used to be a competitive state. Reagan and Deukmejian were popular and effective GOP governors of California. Pete Wilson was too, until the Democrats manufactured their BS “Republic hate Mexicans” lie, destroyed Wilson and began 26 years of one-party rule. Illegal immigration is crack for Democrat politicians. They will NEVER enforce immigration law or protect the border. |
| Posted by: Billy B 2022-11-10 09:29 |
| #14 ^ BINGO. Operation Get |
| Posted by: Chesing Elmolugum4535 2022-11-10 09:15 |
| #13 I thought it was telling that James Carvels came out and said the Red Wave dying was Trumps fault. The left and establishment would like nothing less than to remove Trump and they are making a full court press right now to change minds. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2022-11-10 09:08 |
| #12 BLUF - The GOP fucked up. Again. Charlie Brown, falling flat on his ass after Lucy yanked away the football It’s like they’re trying to lose |
| Posted by: Chesing Elmolugum4535 2022-11-10 08:57 |
| #11 Trump's endorsement of non politicians to be politicians isn't always a good strategy. Oz has too many negatives to win, religion, carpetbagger, flip flopper. Walker screams dumb jock. Vance will betray him. I suggest he stay out of primaries and endorse winners he likes. I like Trump. There is not other conservative that can stand up to the Washington Swamp but he damaged his message with poor endorsements. Six years of damage. |
| Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 2022-11-10 08:47 |
| #10 Success has many fathers. Failure is an orphan. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2022-11-10 08:47 |
| #9 The lies and bullshit will stop when the diesel, gas and food start to run out. It will probably take a civil war in this country to end the bullshit. No one knows where the spark will occur to ignite a civil war, but it will come. |
| Posted by: Pliny Jiling8876 2022-11-10 08:31 |
| #8 There are clearly multiple factors involved. But whatever the relative weight of these factors — GOP incompetence, stupid Karen-ism in the electorate, abortion, and outright Democrat fraud in the Banana Republic states like PA AZ GA — there’s one overwhelming conclusion. We cannot rely on the electoral system to fix our Republic at the national level. We are living in a totalitarian state. Lies about the horrific pseudo-“vaccine,” lies about the pointless Forever Wars, lies about black crime, lies about Deep State crimes and Pfizer-Fauci crimes, and of course endless lies about Orange Adolf and the Evil Wooskies… Lies, effing lies. Fetterman is sentient, Brandon is competent, the war is for “democracy”, the “vaccine” is safe and effective, inflation’s “temporary”… it’s just an Empire of Lies and Bullshit. The ballot box will not save us. Understand and act accordingly. |
| Posted by: Billy B 2022-11-10 08:13 |
| #7 I watched Biden's speech. Time has been cruel to him. This won't get any better in the next 2 years. Better pull out of Fallujah (sic) now. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2022-11-10 07:41 |
| #6 |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-11-10 07:31 |
| #5 Monday-morning quarterbacks are out in force this Thursday. But do you really want the next presidential elections to be about a 82 yo and a 78 yo? Of course Democrats would love a slugfest between Trump and De Santis. Still the smart move would be to dump Kamala, get a new VP who can handle the border crisis and then Biden steps down. But who could do the job? I don't see a Democratic rising star. I don't know who will win a rerun Biden vs Trump. But De Santis (if he doesn't destroy himself) will beat Biden. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2022-11-10 07:18 |
#4  /\ The past performance of Mitch McConnell the current minority leader serves to confirm your assessment P2k. Both sides of the isle know it's little more than a Kabuki dance, and as you say, has been for quite a few years. Cynical yes, but all evidence points to pay-for-view.I'll take 'what is Big Tech, MIC, and Intelligence Community oligarchy' for $600. Alex. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-11-10 06:51 |
| #3 Just can't face the reality. As Trump exposed Deep State, come to grips that its not a republic and hasn't been one for decades. It's an oligarchy of special interests. The rest is a facade to keep the proles from becoming too uppity. The GOP isn't going to deliver anything but the 'UniParty' participation in that oligarchy. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-11-10 05:51 |
| #2 Skank article. |
| Posted by: Mad Eye Omeretch7959 2022-11-10 00:35 |
| #1 This is really a lame and shitty analysis. JD Vance was by far the most successful of all the Trump-backed senate candidates. JD Vance didn’t narrowly win; he won easily, by a mile. And Vance alone, of all the GOP candidates, explicitly laid out an America First foreign policy. NONE of the GOP’s losers did so. The other factor this trite and superficial reading ignores is simply the political sophistication of the various candidates. Nothing against ex-football players or other jocks, but Herschel Walker isn’t very bright. Dr. Oz has a good grasp of anatomy and physiology but his knowledge of American culture and politics is remedial at best. Bolduc and Masters are both proficient in their domains but they too made lots of rookie mistakes. And the GOP did itself no favors by taking an absolutist position in abortion. Sorry but the middle of the road position — Clinton’s famous “safe, legal and rare” formulation — is the only winning position for the GOP on that issue in any closely contested election. Abortion killed many GOP House candidates and it surely torpedo’ed Oz and Bolduc as well. It’s a loser in any state that’s not deep red. Sum: You simply can’t blame this on Trump. Intelligent, sophisticated candidates who push America First + moderate centrist stances on abortion are the formula for victory. |
| Posted by: Billy B 2022-11-10 00:18 |