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Yes, and lots of "show trial" hearings on the Hill. Agencies will be bottled up in legal briefs as their principals are constantly prepping for the next hearing.
Last time we were down big in the House, newly elected congressman @kevinomccarthy refused to let the GOP wallow in despair. He spurred Republicans to action, built a plan, went toe-to-toe with the Democrats, and led the GOP to a congressional majority. Who will carry that torch this time?
These results look less like an endorsement of a far-left Democratic agenda and more like an angry reaction to the current state of things. Texas, for example, which was one of the states I coordinated for the 2016 Trump campaign, did not turn blue; it turned angry red, and will likely deliver GOP gains again in 2028.
I expect the President will cooperate with Congress where he can, but don’t count on him to abandon his core priorities. I also expect the Democratic majority to produce dozens of polarizing bills that the President will veto, sharpening the contrast for the 2028 presidential contest.
Everyone has an opinion about why Republicans got trounced in the election. I won’t bore you with mine.
But here’s why I think these results could be a best-case scenario for the GOP coming into 2028.
Voters didn’t cast ballots for the Democratic agenda. Instead, they expressed anger over rising gas prices, the Iran war, food costs, health care costs, and a perceived indifference out of Washington, D.C.
But the Democrats have party pressures too. Their voter base is going to demand action on issues that are far out of lockstep with mainstream America.
For example: Voters want lower gas prices, but they just installed a majority whose platform calls for an end to all fossil fuels. Keystone Pipeline-level policy will be unavoidable.
Voters want lower beef prices. The incoming majority wants to eliminate beef consumption, with everyone eating engineered meat instead.
Open borders and amnesty? The Democrats will have no choice but to entertain these ideas. The vast majority of Americans don’t want either.
Boys in women’s sports? No doubt there will be dozens of bills in Congress, yet Americans hate the idea.
And the Democratic majority has already signaled that they're going to ramp up the contentious in Washington DC, with incoming House committee chairs posting threats on X about pursuing President Trump, his cabinet, and even members of his staff.
The public hates this; all of it. They want action on what impacts their daily lives.
Remember the Red Baron employee whose rant recently went viral? He just wants relief on gas prices and his mortgage, and from working 18-hour days just to get by. He doesn’t want to eat artificial beef while his daughter competes against men in school volleyball and he's got to flip through TV channels filled with committee hearings trying to “gotcha” Elon Musk.
Make no mistake. The next two years will reset the contrasts. The Democrats can’t help but remind voters why they were shown the door in 2024. And Republicans will shine, with a tremendously accomplished and well-spoken bench of presidential talent, from Vice President Vance to Secretary Rubio, Governor DeSantis, and more.
So while the election aftermath feels terrible now for Republicans, the results set the GOP up for a historic mandate election in 2028, the type that returns majorities to both houses and sweeps the states.
Hang on for the next 2 years. It’s going to be a great ride.
If the influencers who sowed division in GOP ranks last yr focused on precinct door-knocking instead, tonight’s results might’ve been far better for Rs.
Yes. Exactly this. The divisions and infighting must end now.
If there was ever a time for all of us fighting the rise of antisemitism to come together, it’s now. With the election of people like Abdul El-Sayed, and rhetoric like this becoming increasingly normalized, our fight is only going to get harder. And more important.
We cannot afford to be divided. We need to unite our voices, our resources and our efforts. And we sure as hell cannot let these assholes divide us or tear apart what makes America great. This fight is about far more than antisemitism. It’s about the future of our country. And the stakes couldn’t be higher.
Because all the Republican prima donnas who have large Twitter accounts all started fighting each other after Charlie Kirk’s death. We shattered our coalition and here we are.
Politics is not infallible truth. It’s a coalition game. You vote for the candidate that best represents your interests and values.
Sometimes the apologies never arrive.
The year is 1873. Your wife tires easily and reads too much. The doctor prescribes the rest cure: six weeks flat in bed, no books, no visitors, fed on milk, forbidden to sit up without his permission. The man who devised it is the most famous nerve specialist in America, and the women come out of it quieter, which is taken as the cure.
The year is 1915. The hospital has a new way of delivering your child. Morphine, then scopolamine, and the mother wakes two days later with a baby she cannot remember having. They call it twilight sleep. The women are strapped into padded cots so they do not hurt themselves while they scream, and the straps are the modern part. The babies arrive blue and slow to breathe.
The year is 1945. The truck comes down your street fogging DDT, and the children run behind it in the white cloud because the man on the back says it is harmless. At the beach it is sprayed over the bathers on their towels. It goes on the cattle, over the barn, and across the kitchen table.
The year is 1948. Your son has trouble with his ears. The doctor slides a rod tipped with radium up each nostril and holds it there for the best part of ten minutes, and you bring him back three more times. Hundreds of thousands of American children get the same treatment. The cancers arrive in their fifties.
The year is 1962. The health visitor tells you breastfeeding is old-fashioned and the formula is scientific. By 1972 fewer than one American baby in four is breastfed at all. The formula is skimmed milk and sugar, with the milk fat taken out and vegetable oil put in.
The year is 1971. The family planning clinic fits a small plastic crab called the Dalkon Shield. Its tail is a bundle of fibres that wicks bacteria up into the womb. 2.8 million are fitted in America before it is withdrawn, and the company goes bankrupt under the claims. It had been sold as safe and superior.
The year is 1983. The doctor says your arteries are the butter's fault. The dripping tin goes in the bin, the yolks go to the dog, the margarine goes in the fridge, and you have the heart attack anyway, on skimmed milk, having done everything right.
The year is 2001. Your 15-year-old is low, and the doctor prescribes Paxil, because the trial in the journal says it is effective and well tolerated in adolescents. The raw data, reanalysed 14 years later, shows more suicidal thinking on the drug than on the sugar pill. The company pays $3 billion to settle. Nobody rings the house.
The year is 2009. The government has spent around £500 million stockpiling Tamiflu for the pandemic, on the strength of the manufacturer's trials. When the trials are finally prised loose five years later, the drug shortens flu by about half a day and nothing shows it keeps anyone out of hospital. The stockpile goes out of date in a warehouse.
The year is 2026. The doctor has ten minutes and a screen. The number is high, so the tablet is for life. The weight is high, so the injection is for life. The meat is bad for the planet and the oil is good for the heart, and the person in the chair is as certain as everyone who ever sat in it.
Every one of those was settled, by a committee, in a journal, with a doubter somewhere being laughed at. The rest cure, the straps, the fog, the rod, the formula, the crab, the margarine, the trial, the stockpile. All of it certain, all of it printed, all of it done to somebody who had asked for help.
You were never the one who was wrong. You were the one it was done to, and the only person in the story who did as they were told every single time.
The apology comes a generation late, in a footnote, addressed to nobody.
The next one is being drafted now.
Frankly, all of these.
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Tried Amazon's AI assisted shopping for the first time. Whoah! Super helpful, and saved a ton of time.
The discovery of AI potential is in its infancy. So much more to come.