IMO and the opinion of others who understand the political implications of elections, Tuesday night was a resounding rebuke of Trump and the GOP:
From Heather Cox Richardson:
"...legal scholar John Pfaff wrote: 'Every race. It’s basically been every race. Governors. Mayors. Long-held [Republican] dog-catchers. School boards. Water boards. Flipped a dungeon master in a rural Iowa D&D club. State senators. State reps. A janitor in Duluth. State justices. Three [Republican] Uber drivers. Just everything.'Trump posted on social media: 'TRUMP WASN’T ON THE BALLOT, AND SHUTDOWN, WERE THE TWO REASONS THAT REPUBLICANS LOST ELECTIONS TONIGHT,’ according to Pollsters.
But in fact, voters resoundingly rejected Trump and Trumpism, and today, politics will be a whole different game."
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Trump, throwing his usual toddler hissy fit, warned Mamdani, New York's new mayor, that he would withhold federal funding from the city because the New Yorkers' choice for mayor, and not Trump's, won!
That's a first in my lifetime. Never have I heard a POTUS threaten a major city with withholding federal funds because that city freely and fairly voted for the candidate of their choice.
But, as we've said before, Trump doesn't believe in American norms, the rule of law, or our Constitution. What he does believe in is unrestrained power and retribution against anyone who doesn't bend a knee to his authoritarian rule.
All across America last night, Americans told him an emphatic, decisive, conclusive, deafening, "NO WE WON'T!"
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Let's look at the number one issue voters have cited for voting against the GOP... increased daily living costs.
Let's look at home costs... from 1985 to 2024, the age of first time buyers went up and down between 29 and 35 years old. In the last year, according to Realtor.com, the age has jumped to 40 years old, the largest jump in history and outside the normal range.
Why? Because in many states, young buyers cannot afford, on the salaries they make, to buy a house. Young working buyers. Think about how what that means for young couples.
Now, let's look at the "elephant in the room", at least as the GOP and many conservative voters see it.
THE DEMS ELECTED A SOCIALIST!
Oh the horror. The Dems elected a guy like Bernie Sanders to be their Mayor.
I'll admit, I would have preferred a more mainstream candidate for mayor of New York. But Mamdani is not, by virtue of this win, the only "face" of the Democrats.
Not. At. All.
The face of the Dems are the state leaders who won governorships last night.
Abigail Spanberger becomes the first woman to win the Virginia Governorship in history. And what is one of the first thing she had to say to her supporters She thanked her opponent, Winsome Sears for her years of service to the state, and called for an attitude of niceness among Virginians. Imagine that... a normal politician.
Mikie Sherrill, a US Naval Academy graduate, who speaks Arabic and is a former Federal prosecutor won the governorship in New Jersey. Another thoroughly mainstream Dem candidate.
Now, Zohran Mamdani did win a historic race in New York. But this is America. If you are a citizen, you can run for election. If you are Catholic, Baptist, Atheist, Hindu, Jewish or yes, even Muslim, and are a citizen, you have a right to run for election in the United States.
It's one of the things that sets us apart from other countries and, wait for it, Makes America Great!
I know that triggers some people here and on the HMS Mothership, but I don't care. It's in the Constitution. You're free to be critical all you want, just be sure when you do so and claim a Muslim has no right to election in the US that this is the same BS conservatives have said throughout our history when Hindis, like Nikki Haley, Jews, like Joseph Lieberman, Catholics like JFK and more ran for election.
But again, let's be clear... it's racist and Unconstitutional.
Finally, if there's a single MAGA or conservative commenter who shows up today and is critical of California for their gerrymander election, STFU.
Not a one of you raised an objection when the MAGA Texas GOP started this race to the bottom. Tell us why you were so quiet when Texas acted, but are now aghast when California does the same?
Finally Number 2, again, for our MAGA folks... The Dems should have taken AG candidate Jay Jones off the ballot for his offensive and violent texts and phone calls to his opponent. Period.
But in the today times, when a US Presidential Candidate normalizes talk that accepts violence towards political opponents, mocks people attacked by violent offenders and pardons people who brutally beat US Capitol Police Officers, we can see why violent rhetoric is tolerated by our political parties.
I've been pretty open, but for the reading challenged, I'll say it again... There is no place in America for political violence. Period. And that includes the words that encourage it, whether from either the Dems or the GOP.
And when it happens, I'd like to see the parties discipline the guilty and if possible, remove them from office or strip them from the ballot.
So again, for our MAGA friends, any criticism from you of Jay Jones and the Dems in VA for electing him, will ring hollow. So just can it. Unless of course you can point to where you called out and spoke critically of POTUS Trump and his family for the disgusting and yes, violent language they've used since 2015.
What happened in NYC last night is a Trumper’s nightmare, but the MOST American thing that happened to NYCity: New York City's New First Family.
Interfaith, interracial, intercultural, intergenerational, international — AMERICAN.
This is what makes America great.
Not a single election went Trump’s way last night.
BTW, as Anon has pointed out it was a bad night for Trump and the GOP. In Mississippi, Mississippi, folks, no liberal bastion, the Dems won enough state seats to break the GOP Super Majority in that state.
Just stop and think about what that may mean for the GOP.
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