The GOP’s once sure-fire odds to retain their Senate majority in the midterms are looking bleaker every day, but according to a new report from Politico, some in the party are plotting a “coup” that could save them from a complete wipeout: flipping John Fetterman, the increasingly ostracized Democratic senator. Fetterman was first elected to the Senate from Pennsylvania in 2022, besting the Trump-backed Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz and helping Democrats defy the odds and grow their majority in the chamber. Initially styling himself as a working-class progressive champion, he has since made a major shift away from his own party, voicing support for various initiatives and nominees from President Donald Trump and breaking the Democratic minority on several key votes.
We badly need:
Term limits
A recall process for all elected officials
To abolish the senate
Or we abolish the senate and expand the house to the several thousand representatives it should actually be. Term limits on legislators in a small legislature just makes the party even more powerful because nobody will have name recognition except the party. It also highly encourages working with lobbyists who promise to get you a cushy landing spot after your term. For what most people have an issue with, an age cap with a good retirement would work.
Why abolish the senate?
Or, just get people to vote the way the GOPs do.
Look up Jerry Falwell and his Moral Majority. Jerry was a televangelist who grabbed the GOP by the grassroots.
He used his extensive mailing list to find the small local GOP clubs that decide who is going to be the next sheriff or country clerk. If there’d been twenty people at the last meeting, Jerry’s folks would show up with fifty.
That’s kind of smart. Find elections that are so volatile, you can easily amass a small group to tip the tides. Win that election, and use your newfound influence to snowball the effect into larger and larger wins over time.
Only problem is that it’s predatory on small town folk who have a working, albeit delicate, political system. It’s using their delicate platform as a stepping stone for self-promotion, denying them a voice on their own platform in the process.
Only other problem is that it apparently works, if people are fucking doing it.