Cheer Up, Republicans: The Midterms Were Actually a Success

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Cheer Up, Republicans: The Midterms Were Actually a Success
The GOP should disband its circular firing squad, get to work, and keep winning.
By Paul du Quenoy
November 14, 2022

Earth to Republicans: Flipping one house of Congress is not a defeat, no matter how much the legacy media and the complicit Murdoch press (they of the curiously early calls for Biden on Election Day 2020) try to tell you. Not all of the numbers are in—courtesy of multiple state voting systems that remain suspiciously flawed two years after the 2020 debacle and 22 years after the six-week Bush v. Gore psychodrama—but we already know enough to refute the absurd suggestion that what happened on Tuesday was a Republican rout that should be blamed on former president Donald Trump, who—as GOP opponents argue and Democrats hope—will now be exorcized from national politics.

Let’s start with the House. Counting declared victories and races in which Republican candidates led by at least a point in the ballot counting as of Monday, it appears the GOP will eke out a majority of two seats. Obviously, this is smaller than the 20-30 seat majority pollsters predicted in recent weeks, but if the Democrats have taught us nothing else, a bare majority is still a majority.

Whether that majority materializes or not, the new House GOP caucus will be the most conservative, and the most pro-Trump, ever elected. About 140 of its confirmed members—roughly two-thirds of the total now definitely poised to take office in January—deny the results of the 2020 presidential election. They include 15 newly arriving freshmen members, one of whom, Wisconsin’s Derrick Van Orden, was a J6 protester and who flipped a Democratic seat. Hardly any pro-Trump incumbents lost. The most notable endangered member in that category, gun-toting Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert, is holding a slight lead after having fallen behind in early ballot counting.

It is, rather, the avowedly anti-Trump GOP congressmen who were almost totally eliminated this year. Of the 10 who voted in favor of Trump’s second impeachment, only two will still be in office in January, and their campaigns assiduously avoided discussing their impeachment votes. Of the eight others, four lost their primaries to Trump-endorsed candidates, and another four left politics rather than suffer the same likely fate. No matter how much Washington RINOs point fingers at the former president, the House GOP’s anti-Trump chorus is now a mute duet.

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[aligncare]

Oh, goodie.  An optimist.  Who needs an optometrist.

Reagan once said don’t be afraid to see what you see.  I say, good or bad, see it, then mobilize.

[Free Vulcan]

Mixed bag at best.

[Fishrrman]

I want some of what Mr. du Quenoy has been smokin...

[cato potatoe]

It was a success in Ohio, Florida, Iowa, West Virginia, South Carolina, Kentucky, Arkansas, Utah, Alabama, and to some degree in North Carolina and New York. 

It was a disappointment in Arizona, Kansas, Virginia, Alaska, Rhode Island, California, Oregon, and Connecticut. 

It was a disaster in Illinois, Colorado, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Washington, Maryland, New Mexico, Minnesota and for the most part in Nevada and New Hampshire.

[Polly Ticks]

It was a success in Ohio, Florida, Iowa, West Virginia, South Carolina, Kentucky, Arkansas, Utah, Alabama, and to some degree in North Carolina and New York. 

Let's call it mixed results in Kentucky.  The pro-life amendment failed.