"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future" - Yogi Berra (Haha, sorry, couldn't resist.)
Far be it for me to pour cold water on Democratic schadenfreude -- God knows a little positivity and levity at the well-deserved expense of Republican arrogance and overconfidence is always a welcome relief in the otherwise gloomy ze…
"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future" - Yogi Berra (Haha, sorry, couldn't resist.)
Far be it for me to pour cold water on Democratic schadenfreude -- God knows a little positivity and levity at the well-deserved expense of Republican arrogance and overconfidence is always a welcome relief in the otherwise gloomy zeitgeist and liberal angst over elections, also well-deserved. Sometimes politics can be fun even in defeat.
Therein lies the rub: Losing Congress, either one or both houses, is a major defeat for Democrats no matter how the results are sliced and diced and reimagined. Sure, it could have been worse -- a lot worse! -- but it's a huge loss nonetheless, irrespective of the seemingly miraculous bucking of historical trends in midterms for the supposed "party in power," meaning primarily the White House, since Congress is mired in hopeless gridlock and promises to remain so for at least another two years.
Rightly or wrongly, Democratic "leaders" succeeded in scaring the crap out of their voters to whip them to the polls, the drop-off boxes, or the Post Office -- whatever, just vote goddammit! Of course, they were greatly assisted by rabid Republicans who just couldn't help themselves in pissing-off most normal human beings who still possess functioning brain cells.
So that worked. Now, it's on to 2024. Can Democrats improve their learning curve even further with the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene and cohorts fully transforming the "people's house" into an open-air cesspool of toxicity, which will make the first two years of the Biden Administration seem like a kumbaya moment of bipartisan tranquility? As they say, strap in, because it's gonna get a whole lot worse before it gets better.
So, Democrats need to keep mainlining fear and anger ...because it works! Unfortunately. Ask a Republican. Hope does too, just not as much. Sorry for being cynical.
"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future" - Yogi Berra (Haha, sorry, couldn't resist.)
Far be it for me to pour cold water on Democratic schadenfreude -- God knows a little positivity and levity at the well-deserved expense of Republican arrogance and overconfidence is always a welcome relief in the otherwise gloomy zeitgeist and liberal angst over elections, also well-deserved. Sometimes politics can be fun even in defeat.
Therein lies the rub: Losing Congress, either one or both houses, is a major defeat for Democrats no matter how the results are sliced and diced and reimagined. Sure, it could have been worse -- a lot worse! -- but it's a huge loss nonetheless, irrespective of the seemingly miraculous bucking of historical trends in midterms for the supposed "party in power," meaning primarily the White House, since Congress is mired in hopeless gridlock and promises to remain so for at least another two years.
Rightly or wrongly, Democratic "leaders" succeeded in scaring the crap out of their voters to whip them to the polls, the drop-off boxes, or the Post Office -- whatever, just vote goddammit! Of course, they were greatly assisted by rabid Republicans who just couldn't help themselves in pissing-off most normal human beings who still possess functioning brain cells.
So that worked. Now, it's on to 2024. Can Democrats improve their learning curve even further with the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene and cohorts fully transforming the "people's house" into an open-air cesspool of toxicity, which will make the first two years of the Biden Administration seem like a kumbaya moment of bipartisan tranquility? As they say, strap in, because it's gonna get a whole lot worse before it gets better.
So, Democrats need to keep mainlining fear and anger ...because it works! Unfortunately. Ask a Republican. Hope does too, just not as much. Sorry for being cynical.