Typically, after an election and the bigger it is, the more likely, things will slow down a bit. I hinted at this here. The days after, win or lose, are for the election hangover, a few days in detox, or a week of me-time.
ICYMI: Is Someone Trying to Undermine the Integrity of NH’s Committee on Voter Confidence
We get fewer emails and less site traffic, and it looked like that trend would hold until it didn’t.
The red wave that wasn’t has become a call for action in the Republican party from the roots to the tips to the recipient and donor lists of the RSC and NRSC. Failure was an option, and she’s come calling, and introspection, win or lose, is a good thing. We have an opportunity to use what we learn to do better. But be careful about signing on the blame trump coalition, not because of any complicity in the epidemic underperformance, but because his enemies think they can finally be rid of him.
Electile Dysfunction
There are plenty of reasons why Republicans lose elections. Raheem Kassam has a great piece about all of this on his substack. For example,
Democrats run “better” campaigns, mostly because they’re allowed to, which in turn is because they dominate in positions that exert pressure – in politics, media, and culture. It’s easier for Democrats to rip down Republican yard signs without recompense. It’s also easier for left leaning activists to get away with violence or intimidation. Their talking heads are rarely challenged when they lie. They use Chinese Communist-owned platforms like TikTok to radicalise impressionable young voters and they use issues like abortion and student loans to do it. We recognise all of this as immoral. But elections aren’t conducted by Marquess of Queensbury rules. Republicans play touch football and call it smashmouth. Democrats play smashmouth and call it kiss chase.
GraniteGrok plays by Democrat rules. When they hit, you hit back twice as hard. When they change the subject, pull them back. When they demand apologies, drag them in their dirt and demand apologies from them. A practice we apply to everyone regardless of party registration. A thing for which we are frequently scolded by “real” Republicans as if we care.
These are the same folks who ride sidesaddle with the Democrats poo-pooing Donald Trump’s mean tweets, which has become a metaphor for playing by Democrat rules from the right. Trump won the primary in 2016 because he played the Left’s game. He won the general election because the Dems didn’t think he could beat Hillary and Donald Trump ran on things that mattered to regular Americans. And except for clearing the swamp, he did a damn good job of keeping those promises but needed more time, and Democrats didn’t make the same mistake in 2020 or 2022, but it looks like Republicans did.
More from Raheem.
The GOP ‘McLeadership’ must change. If you accept that Republicans should have done better in this cycle, you have to go to the source of where the decisions are made and how the money is spent. That’s in the hands of people like Kevin McCarthy, Tom Emmer, Mitch McConnell, and Ronna Romney McDaniel. Trump isn’t a “party leader” in a European political sense. He wasn’t on the ballot this year. He doesn’t control the purse strings, nor the hires inside the GOP. His philosophy is ultimately beholden to centralised implementation.
And.
DeSantis has a big and bright future. But it cannot come at a cost to the MAGA movement. Even those surrounding and supportive of the victorious Florida governor accept that DeSantis is closer to the GOP comfort zone – including the neoconservatives – than Trump is.
You can read the rest here because I have one more thing to share.
The Machine wants to sell a story that divides the GOP and alienates Trump and his supporters no more or less than on any other day of the year. It’s all a distraction to protect the ruling class, which is the real problem with the Republican Party.
I’ll close with this from Jack Posobiec.
“There is a power vacuum right now caused by these vote delays and the DC Uniparty is using it to try to institute a MAGA Civil War” pic.twitter.com/LGgW2RIdmI
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) November 12, 2022
