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Republicans lost to themselves. Trump was never on a single ballot tonight. Not one House seat, not one Senate seat, not one governor’s race. What was on the ballot was a party that spent twenty months with total control of Congress and produced exactly one major law: a bill that gutted Medicaid by over a trillion dollars while eight percent of Americans said it helped. That’s not a referendum on Trump. That’s a referendum on a party that showed up to work, collected a paycheck, and went home.
Let’s be precise about what they did. They passed twenty-two Congressional Review Act resolutions, more than the entire history of that law before them. They pushed defense spending past a trillion. They forced the Epstein files into the open over Trump’s objection. So don’t tell me the institution couldn’t function. It functioned beautifully when the job was tearing things down. It went catatonic when the job was building anything.
That’s the whole story. A Congress that could repeal, rescind, and dismantle at record speed could not legislate, could not negotiate, could not produce a single bipartisan achievement worth a bumper sticker. Instead it handed the keys to a president and watched him drive. One hundred forty-three executive orders in the first hundred days. Nearly three hundred by fall. The Department of Education got a death sentence by memorandum. Whether you like any of that is beside the point. The point is that none of it was Congress’s doing. Congress’s doing was nothing. Its signature was absence.
Trump’s base turns out when he’s on the ballot. Fine. He wasn’t. The Republican Party was, and it is getting buried tonight not because voters suddenly discovered Trump’s flaws. They’ve known those for a decade. It’s because they looked at the other half of the equation and found a void. A party that exists to check power and instead donated it. A party that promised results and delivered silence. A party that had every lever of government in its hands did what?
Let’s be precise about what they did. They passed twenty-two Congressional Review Act resolutions, more than the entire history of that law before them. They pushed defense spending past a trillion. They forced the Epstein files into the open over Trump’s objection. So don’t tell me the institution couldn’t function. It functioned beautifully when the job was tearing things down. It went catatonic when the job was building anything.
That’s the whole story. A Congress that could repeal, rescind, and dismantle at record speed could not legislate, could not negotiate, could not produce a single bipartisan achievement worth a bumper sticker. Instead it handed the keys to a president and watched him drive. One hundred forty-three executive orders in the first hundred days. Nearly three hundred by fall. The Department of Education got a death sentence by memorandum. Whether you like any of that is beside the point. The point is that none of it was Congress’s doing. Congress’s doing was nothing. Its signature was absence.
Trump’s base turns out when he’s on the ballot. Fine. He wasn’t. The Republican Party was, and it is getting buried tonight not because voters suddenly discovered Trump’s flaws. They’ve known those for a decade. It’s because they looked at the other half of the equation and found a void. A party that exists to check power and instead donated it. A party that promised results and delivered silence. A party that had every lever of government in its hands did what?
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This election was a statement. Trump said people should treat this election like he's on the ballot and they did. His hand picked candidates got crushed. MAGA just got reduced to a fringe movement. The GOP should consider going in a different direction if they want any chance in 2028 because it's pretty clear what the country thinks of Trump and his policies. If they don't learn their lessen they will be doomed to repeat it.
@BonzoInBitburg how often do parties in power win midterms?
Democrats were going to win seats regardless 🤷♂️
@FrodoVader007 It happened in 2002 and in 1998 the Democrats gained in the house and no seats changed in the Senate. In 2022 the Democrats lost 9 seats in the House and gained 1 in the Senate. In 2018 the Republicans lost 41 seats in the House and gained 2 in the Senate. It's not uncommon to lose seats in one and gain in the other. Around 50 seats flipping in the House and a half dozen in the Senate is significant because they go from a minority to comfortable majority which isn't common.
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/.../seats-congress-gainedlost-the-presidents-party-mid-term-elections
Certainly, as I said rare, not that it doesn't happen.
It was a rhetorical question.
The reality is this will turn into 2 years of nonstop lawfare that will achieve nothing.
Eventually Republicans will pull off the same 6+ years from now.
Inevitably authoritarianism will rise.
Writing is on the wall.
Trump has been litigating every Democrat he could for 2 years so back and forth it goes. People voted for gridlock because they felt Trump was too authoritarian. That's how checks and balances work.
The issue is (and I'm quite old enough to remember), the partisan aspect of these politics are far worse.
My college years did not see anything to this level. Now you are murdered for your views.
Yes, Trump went after them, they went after him. It's a endless cycle where parties concentrate on legally attacking their opponents and nothing is achieved.
That leads to a breakdown of democracy, which we already see today. For example, trust in media is at historical lows, and approval for congress is below that.
The acceptance of a REAL authoritarian regime is right around the corner 🤷♂️
Anakin Skywalker was right..
Let's be honest.
1. It's not finished. 🤷♂️
2. Incumbents rarely ever keep seats in midterms. I believe the statistic is that 90%+ of the time the opposing party gains power
3 it achieves little and will likely only cause legal issues (which have already happened) for the Republicans.
I predicted the Republicans would hold Senate, and lose House.
Even if they lose both, it doesn't really amount to much in the long run. Watch Republicans remain power in another decade.
Just how this process works 🤷♂️
*regain
Honestly, I remember those exact same arguments when Democrats held power not too long ago
😂
it is all about gas prices. voters have a short attention span and see 4 dollars a gallon for gas every week. Even though not a single democrat laid out a plan for briing down fuel costs and have a track record of making them go sky high the dumb voters voted for them anyway.
America rebuked Trump indirectly and all Republican candidates directly. Midterms are a referendum on who is in charge. Congress is a check on the President's power. It is 100% a rebuke of Trump AND how bad Republicans have done with their power. Deny it all you want.
Yup. They squandered the opportunity handed to them by Trump
"Feel the hate."
- Dargil
1. Who is dargil?
2. I’m getting excited. I think this is going to be new level of wtf is trump going to do next?
People wanted change. They will live to regret it.