There’s Plenty Of GOP Blame To Go Around, But One Person Deserves More Than Others
Derek Hunter
| Nov 13, 2022
Well, that sucked. And the hits keep on coming.
One of the favorite pastimes of the political class is finger-pointing – when a candidate bombs the fingers come out, mostly because the alternative would be to take some responsibility themselves. In the case of the 2022 election, there is plenty of blame to go around as there was a whole lot of feces hitting a very powerful fan. Pretty much everyone got hit with their share of splatter.
Trump supporters blame Mitch McConnell, and non-Trump supporters blame Trump. But where does most of the blame belong? Honestly, everywhere.
People didn’t show up where people needed to show up to flip races. Oh, they showed up elsewhere. You’ll hear about the “national popular vote,” the total number of votes cast for each party. Republicans received almost 52 million votes, Democrats only around 47 million. It’s an interesting stat that means absolutely nothing.
For the past few cycles, Democrats were roundly mocked by conservatives for citing how they’d won the NPV, as they should have been, so it can’t be a source of comfort now. Everyone knows where the votes are needed. If the candidates, campaigns, and party can’t work within that reality they deserve to lose.
So what the hell happened? A lot. And it wasn’t all just Donald Trump vs Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy, but that was some of it and I will start there before I get to what I believe deserves the largest slice of responsibility for the losses.
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