While I agree with everything you wrote, it reflects not only the problem the crazy left have relating to average people but the Democrat Party itself.
Most Americans just want to pay the bills and live a comfortable life. They're unhappy to see the deck stacked against them in favor of the few and powerful but that does not mean they want to go full Venezuela or Puerto Rico
There are, of course, multiple explanations why Ossoff couldn't pull it off. Dem voters were energized but, in the end, so were GOP voters. Yet a couple of TBR members who live in this Georgia district have been oozing disaffection for months, condemning Congress and hardly conveying any taste for party solidarity.
Yet the GOP vote turned out. The most recent polls before the election showed Ossoff with a two point lead, yet he lost by six points. An eight point swing in a week. What explains that? What changed?
I say it was the realization that the "resistance" is more than rhetoric, it is the very real threat of political violence. If those two cops hadn't been there, a dozen GOP members of Congress would have been shot dead. Like any community that is subject to violent attack, the GOP community, I think, is beginning to realize the stakes, and the need to answer back. Not with violence, of course, but with political solidarity.
Unity can be our salvation, and disunity our demise. Right now, members of Congress need to bury their differences and work TOGETHER to pass tax reform, health care reform and the other aspects of the GOP agenda that will get our voters to the polls and expand our majorities.
