Former Trump campaign chairman and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon told his podcast viewers that Republicans should take Tuesday night’s losses to heart, saying: “The midterms start tonight, and the warning signs are flashing.” He observed that “Democrats just flipped two Georgia commissioners,” marking “their first statewide wins in 30 years.”
Far-right influencer Mike Cernovich (who spawned the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory) tweeted: “Ted Cruz and Mark Levin are walking Trump into impeachments and then prison. 2026 will be a blood bath.” MAGA podcaster Jack Posobiec likewise warned that “2026 will be worse if we don’t course-correct.”
“We can’t win if trump isn’t on the ballot, and that’s never happening again.”
So, you built a cult of personality with an obvious expiration date. And that expiration date already passed. Lol good
Sometimes they can’t even win when Trump is on the ballot. Seems more accurate to say that they can’t win unless a woman is on the democratic ticket.
I think the Democrats should fight fire with fire.
Push for Dwayne Johnson or Taylor Swift as the Democratic nominee.
Or better yet listen to your fucking voters for a change.
It would be a fools errand to fight on that level with them. Just sink our politics further into the idiocracy farce.
Your last point, though, def. Look at 2008, look at the support for Bernie. Look at AOC, mamdani. They captured the excitement and won handily. Why was that? Because hey ran on real progressive change. Which people are desperate for. But the establishment, which includes the Democratic Party, will stop at nothing to keep people like that from winning. It ruins their big club.
At risk of sounding like I’m dick riding, Vance has all the cunning and charisma to fill the power vacuum. He’s just lacking that “too stupid to talk to” quality that most Maga voters find relatable, but given the spotlight he could probably hit those notes they like.
It kind of is good Kirk got slimed because he’s the only other I could think of that did all the poses they like and was also too stupid to be told anything.
Vance is politically quite savvy. He’s shallow and inauthentic and I think he’s smart enough to know that is a huge disadvantage following Trump. If he leans in to the memes, which it seems like he’s already doing, he’s a legitimate threat in 28. He’s built a career on being groomed by maga goons and it’s paid off so far.
Vance plays dumb, but not all that convincingly. He doesn’t radiate oafish stupidity in the same way that Trump does.
And he looks like a demonically-possessed chipmunk.