I thought I would use this article as a launching off point to creative suggestions on what it would take to win. The author allows for the distinct likelihood that there was election fraud: how else to account for Fetterman winning (taking over a Republican seat, nonetheless) while Kari Lake lost (losing a Republican seat: Ducey is "R"). Add in that these were the same places "the machines" couldn't count votes in 2020, and you have to be either corrupt or an complete imbecile not to ask questions.
But I digress. The main lesson of the 2022 midterms isn't that there was probably massive voter fraud with "the usual suspects". The main lesson is hidden in the FACT that most of the margins of victory in places the Republicans WON weren't ten or twenty points higher. DeSantis and a few other races excepted, GOP performance in the races it WON was anemic, to be charitable.
Why? Is it really that the super majority of US voters LIKE crime, fentanyl, unlimited late term infanticide (baby killing), and double digit inflation in a collapsing economy? I don't believe that for a second. (Although I note, there is no getting around the fact that half the population of the US is truly too stupid to think their way out of a paper bag (That is what an IQ < 105 means; and it can't be refuted with Woke ideology).
So what would it take to win...like DeSantis, or Rand Paul won across most of the nation? Your thoughts, Dear AB geniuses?
http://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/the-red-wave-fizzled-because-the-gop-sucks/
excerpt:
The Red Wave Fizzled Because the GOP Sucks
By Ben Bartee - November 16, 2022
I want the populist right to prevail because the Democrats are now nothing but puppets of the WEF-run multinational corporate state. Prevailing is not what the right is currently doing.
The autopsies begin. If you’re into mindless GOP cheerleading, go feast your eyes on Sean Hannity. Real leaders don’t make excuses for failures; they own up to their shortcomings to ensure victory next time.
There’s a lot of speculation, understandably, about the nuanced reasons that the GOP’s much-vaunted Red Wave. Did Trump’s preferred candidates stray too far into crazytown? Did the Democrat campaigning on abortion make up the difference? Was election rigging in blue jurisdictions a factor?
These issues are worth exploring.
But the core problem – which predated Trump and enabled his rise in the first place as an anti-establishment firebrand – is that the GOP lost because it sucks. And it sucks hard.
The GOP excels admirably at throwing red meat to its base. That’s not a problem. The base isn’t going anywhere. Where it fails miserably is inspiring normies – the ones who don’t follow politics religiously and more or less just want to live decent lives.
People want to be inspired – genuinely so. 1990s-style power-thumb scripted inspiration of the Daddy Bush/Clinton era doesn’t cut it anymore. Normal people have grown to hate normal politicians, as they should. In the absence of legitimate inspiration, apathy takes over. 50% of Americans don’t vote – yet somehow the parties never seem to invest any sincere effort into attracting them.
Trump succeeded in 2016 against all odds because he delivered a message of inspiration, in his own way, that contrasted starkly with Hillary Clinton, the perfect emblem of Washington rot. He promised to onshore jobs lost to NAFTA and GATT and the TPP. He promised to #draintheswamp, which presumably meant running out the DC creatures that have infested that city for decades now.
He was bold enough to buck party orthodoxy and even challenge Wall St. criminals that enjoyed virtual immunity from both parties for decades, even after they ran the economy into the ground in 2008.
“Wall Street hates him because he is a class traitor. He has bought into the populist rhetoric that Wall Street is greedy and makes too much money…He sounds more anti-Wall Street than Elizabeth Warren.”
In the totality of his political rhetoric in 2015-16, he looked poised to dismantle the corrupt political establishment that had enjoyed a stranglehold on American culture and economy for far too long. Voters loved it, even in spite of his rather unsavory personality traits and behavior.
Now look at him – whining about getting credit for midterm victories and not wanting blame for losses.
This is total beta nonsense that no real man would ever respect. There is no vision there. Just pure bloated ego.
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Maybe some degree of election fraud benefited Democrat candidates. Maybe not. Either way, the 2022 midterms should’ve been a total blowout.
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