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In The Mailbox: 03.20.25

Posted on | March 21, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.20.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Tax work is making my thinky-goo go owie.
Based Books Alternative History Sale
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Top 20 Times Democrat Activist Judge Boasberg Overruled America
357 Magnum: Public Radio in Chicago Notices Crime and (the lack of) Punishment
EBL: Elon Musk Sends Rocket To Rescue Astronauts, Wisconsin : Vote For Judge Brad Schimel for Supreme Court, and Lily Stewart Mugs for the Camera
Twitchy: SecDef Allegedly Removes Every Woman And POC From List Of Notable Americans, Zelensky Fights Trump’s Ceasefire Efforts, Announces “Redline”, and TSA’s Fatima Turns Geography Lesson Into TikTok Tantrum
Louder With Crowder: Tampon Tim Walz says you FEAR his “masculinity.” Also, he can totally kick all of our butts, After Chuck Schumer’s unhinged tirade against American taxpayers, Barstool CEO Dave Portnoy offers the only common sense solution, Elon Musk SAVAGES Tim Walz after the failed candidate celebrates Democrats terrorizing Tesla families and employees, Scott Jennings puts left-wingers on CNN in their place as they celebrate the terrorist attacks against Tesla owners, and Smug ‘influencer’ whines old man is ruining her livestream as he lets her know how little he gives a rip
Vox Popoli: The Daily Wire May Be Bankrupt, The Legend at Work, Rolling Back Clown World, Relegation in the USA, and The Fantasy Divide
Upstream Reviews: Jack of Shadows
Bugscuffle Gazette: Throwback
Cedar Sanderson: The Light of Stars

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CDR Salamander: March Military-Industrial Complex Madness Begins
Don Surber: Mobius Strip Journalism
Glenn Reynolds: Trump & The Lower Courts
STUMP: Mortality Quick Take – Yes, It’s A Bad Flu Season

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As Ace Says, ‘Woman’

Posted on | March 20, 2025 | Comments Off on As Ace Says, ‘Woman’

The scare-quotes are necessary for obvious reasons and, just by the way, that headline is from Fox News. The arrest happened last month.

Did you know that every Tesla automobile has a built-in security camera? The idiots committing these acts of terroristic vandalism don’t seem to be aware of this security feature, and the fact that they could spend years in prison doesn’t seem to have occurred to them, either. And I just want to say, Thank you, stupid Democrats, for giving us an excuse to send you to prison with a felony conviction that, in most states, will prohibit you from voting. Wile E. Coyote could not be reached for comment.

Our good friend Deb Heine had the story of Justin Thomas Nelson, a/k/a “Lucy Grace Nelson,” a 42-year-old Democrat who is facing multiple felony charges in Larimer County, Colorado, after police say he/“she” repeatedly visited a Tesla dealership and committed acts of vandalism. The charges include “Explosives or Incendiary Devices Use During Felony.” But while contemplating this criminal’s stupidity, could we just mention that no one will ever mistake Justin/“Lucy” for a woman?

He does not pass. Period. Until rather recently, the inability to “pass” as female would have deterred a person like Justin Nelson from transgenderism. What is the point of this masquerade if no one believes it? That is the question any sane person concerned with facts and logic would ask about such behavior, but facts and logic are transphobic, you see, and thus sane people are deprived of the First Amendment right to speak the blunt truth: “That’s not a woman. It’s a lunatic in a dress.”

We are not supposed to notice the bullying inherent in the transgender agenda, where people are compelled to play along with this nonsense. And the fact that lunatics like Justin/”Lucy” feel empowered to engage in terroristic crime — well, isn’t that a logical consquence of this?

Andy Ngo calls them “trantifa” for a reason, but now Justin/”Lucy” Nelson has more serious problems to worry about:

Today, Attorney General Pamela Bondi announced charges against three individuals responsible for the violent destruction of Tesla properties. All three defendants will face the full force of the law for using Molotov cocktails to set fire to Tesla cars and charging stations.
“The days of committing crimes without consequence have ended,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “Let this be a warning: if you join this wave of domestic terrorism against Tesla properties, the Department of Justice will put you behind bars.”

— One defendant, also armed with a suppressed AR-15 rifle, was arrested after throwing approximately eight Molotov cocktails at a Tesla dealership located in Salem, Oregon.
— Another was arrested in Loveland, Colorado after attempting to light Teslas on fire with Molotov cocktails. The defendant was later found in possession of materials used to produce additional incendiary weapons.
— In Charleston, South Carolina, a third defendant wrote profane messages against President Trump around Tesla charging stations before lighting the charging stations on fire with Molotov cocktails.

Each defendant faces serious charges carrying a minimum penalty of five years and up to 20 years in prison.
The Department of Justice is committed to ending all acts of violence and arson directed at Tesla properties and otherwise.

Five years in federal prison! Congratulations, you ugly freak.



 

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In the Mailbox: 03.18.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | March 19, 2025 | Comments Off on In the Mailbox: 03.18.25 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Bridget Phetasy pegs the Democrats. No, not like that, you pervs.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago, also You Can’t Just Shoot People
EBL: Standing Up, Republican Senators at the Gym: Please do not let Chuck Schumer get on the exercise machine next to me, Trump orders classified JFK files to be released, Judge Boasberg upset with Trump Administration, and Harry Chapin : 30 THOUSAND POUNDS of BANANAS ?
Twitchy: “Oh, Haarrry, You Got Some ‘Splainin’ To Do!”, Scott Jennings Clashes With Democrat Panel Guests As They Excuse & Laugh Off Tesla Terror Attacks, and Hakeem Jeffries & The Democrats Crank Up The Lies As Egg & Gas Prices Fall
Louder With Crowder: Trans Influencer announces they/them are moving out of Trump’s America, Anti-Trump 90’s one-hit wonder band is super upset the White House used their song for hilarious deportation video, CNN goes all in on supporting violent gangs of illegal migrants, The trailer AND release date for Happy Gilmore 2 dropped and can be summed up in four words, and Leftists flip out over Kim “KKKardashian” for the crime of taking a photo with a Tesla
Vox Popoli: JFK Records Released, Never Trust the Money, Demographics Not Digital, Seven Kill Tiger Lives, and That Can’t Be Good
Cedar Sanderson: Writing Under Duress
Defending The Wood Perilous: The Sin of Staying Irish
Stoic Observations: Circle Protocol Recap, 

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Adam Piggott: Stealing Australia
American Conservative: Putin Agrees to Infrastructure Ceasefire After Call with Trump, also, What Are American National Interests in Syria?
American Greatness: DHS Cancels Lebanese Doc’s Visa After She Attends Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah’s Funeral, Judge Boasberg Facing Impeachment Effort , Multiple Tesla Vehicles in Las Vegas and Kansas City Set Ablaze Overnight, Left-Wing Arab Group Sues White House Over Deportations of Anti-Israel Rioters, and Multiple Conservative Influencers Swatted in the Past Few Days (Updated)
American Thinker: Trump-O-Phobia Drives Some Americans to Questionable Greener Pastures Overseas, A Businessman and a Brilliant Strategist, and Do We Have 677 Unelected Presidents?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, Animal’s Daily Whale Pee News, and Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 41 – Special Kids, The Iditarod, Dumb Crooks and More
BattleSwarm: Library Additions – Two Books, Trump Dirtnaps Jihadis, Enjoy The World’s Toughest Prison, Tren De Aragua Scumbags, and DOGE Uncovers “Magic Money Computers”
Behind The Black: Freedom capsule splashes down successfully, SpaceX launches 23 more Starlink satellites, including 13 with phone-to-satellite capabilities, Isar confirms March 20, 2025 for first launch, Rocket Lab launches the last of five missions for French satellite company, and The next time someone tells you Mars lacks water, show them this picture
Cafe Hayek: What They Tax Their People, We’ll Tax Our People, Notes on Consumer Sovereignty and Production, We Are Deluged By An Ocean of Ignorance About Trade, On Trade, Pharmaceutical Products, and Cheap Jeans, and On U.S. Government Indebtedness and the U.S. Trade Deficit
CDR Salamander: How About The USCG Do Coast Guarding & The USN Do Navaling?
Chicago Boyz: The Final Four of Villainy, also, Manufacturing versus ‘High-Tech’…Really?
Dana Loesch: Audible AIDS Band From The 90s Is Mad That Trump Sampled Their Song, Trump Pulls Hunter & Ashley Biden’s Secret Service Details, Now Domestic Terrorists Are Targeting All Tesla Owners, Biden’s AutoPen Predicament
Don Surber: Lemme hear Bukele ringing out
First Street Journal: The left really do hate Freedom of Speech and of The Press, also, Can one of the chest-thumping neocons tell me how they intend to actually win the wars they are pushing?
Gates Of Vienna: Yet Another Allahu Akhbar Moment in France, Whatever You Do, Don’t Evict an Imam, The Jolly White Giant, Who Decides? and Happy Fifth Birthday, COVID-19!
The Geller Report: Israel Pounds Gaza After Hamas Refuses to Free Hostages, Family of Corrupt Obama Judge Who Ordered Deportation Planes Back Is Deeply Compromised, TESLA TERRORISM: Multiple Tesla Dealerships Set Aflame, Biden Judge Halts Trump’s Military Trans Ban, and Brown University Professor Deported Over Hezbollah Links
Glenn Reynolds: A Nation, Not A Side Quest
Hollywood In Toto: Dick Tracy at 35: No MCU Film Ever Looked THIS Good, Marc Maron Curses Out Bill Maher for Craziest Reason, What Oscar Bounce? Anora Stumbles Despite Best Picture Win, The Last Supper Inspired by Da Vinci Masterpiece, and Is The Host Bong Joon-ho’s Best Film?
The Lid: Washington State Democrats Want People Who Don’t Live There to Vote, also, Trump Has Reversed About 100 Biden Executive Orders
Legal Insurrection: Ceasefire Ends as Israel Conducts Airstrikes on Gaza, Preempting Hamas Attack, Boeing Starliner Crew Safely Splashes Down in SpaceX Dragon Crew Capsule, Governor of Wyoming Signs Law Banning DEI Policies at Public Colleges, Dear Chief Justice Roberts, Do Your Job, and There’s a Reason Why Record Cash Is Pouring Into Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
Nebraska Energy Observer: Spring is in the air, The Warrior’s Path, and Liar, liar, pants on fire!
Outkick: Climate Loony Dem Targets Dodger Stadium, Demands ’76’ Sign Removal, Indiana Hires Darian DeVries As New Head Coach, Cheap Miami Marlins Could Face Investigation For Lack Of Spending, Massive Brawl Between Jackson State, Prairie View A&M Leads To 9 Suspensions, Major Fines, and ‘Am I Overreacting After My Wife Flashed Her Boobs At A Friend’s House?’
Power Line: Feeding Our Fraud – He Said he said, DOGE Stopped In Its Tracks, The AP Lies Again, and Defund the Left!
Shark Tank: FL Bill Scrutinizing Chemtrails & Banning Weather Altering Advances
Shot In The Dark: Astroturf, Unforgiven, and Resolution
The Political Hat: The Ides of March, Nostalgia Of The Nomenklatura, Womb Transplants: The Good, The Bad & The Nekomimi, and From Empire To Hermit Kingdom?
This Ain’t Hell: Joe Biden signatures allegedly done by autopen, Tulsi Tuesday, Pentagon’s DEI Purge, A French politician demands return of the Statue of Liberty, and Iranian general warns of a potential ‘decisive and devastating’ response
Transterrestrial Musings: Elon Has Gone Too Far, Chief Justice Roberts, Fantastic Point, Trump’s DOJ Speech, and Starship Troopers
Victory Girls: Schumer Is The Democrats’ Scapegoat After Funding Bill Passes, also, Houthis Learn The Hard Way That Trump Is Not Biden
Watts Up With That: How a Heat Pump Destroyed One Consumer’s Perfect Energy Rating, Energy Fantasy Versus Reality In Woke-Land — Part III, The Case for a US Disaster Review Board, Tories Abandon Net Zero, and Biden Admin ‘Intentionally Buried’ Inconvenient Study To Justify Major Energy Crackdown, Sources Say
The Federalist: No Amount Of Crocodile Tears Can Erase Corporate Media’s Complicity In Covid Scandal, 3 Arrested In Texas For Running Illegal Back-Alley Abortion Ring, Trump Is Right To Push Back Against Judicial Supremacy, Veterans Affairs Ends Distribution Of Taxpayer-Funded Chemical Castration Drugs, and Liberal Judge Susan Crawford’s Husband Promotes Lawfare Against Homeschool Families
Mark Steyn: Mellow Blarney, La trahison des experts, Dirty Work: Randolph Scott Turns Nasty in Decision at Sundown, Carney Folk, and Return to Sender?

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In The Mailbox: 03.18.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | March 18, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.18.25 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

High winds in Tonopah last night = no internet.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Top 20 Reasons The Epstein & JFK Files Haven’t Been Released Yet
357 Magnum: The End of the Movie Theater as a Viable Business
EBL: Autopen Biden Cancelled, Saint Patrick ??, Firefly : We Didn’t Know How Good We Had It, Obama Judge James Boasberg blocks sending Tren de Aragua back to Venezuela, and Regenerative Farm Tour with Joel Salatin @ Polyface Farms
Twitchy: Even The Left Ain’t Buying It, Report Reveals Republicans Lose Faith In Science When Democrats Leverage Lab Coats For Partisan Agendas, and CBS Compares Tren de Aragua To Irish Immigrants
Louder With Crowder: “Don’t you all have jobs?”, Jasmine Crockett LASHES OUT at John Fetterman, Marco Rubio silences Margaret (again), exposes just how little the Left and the media care about free speech, Democrat rep condones domestic terrorism against Tesla, and A woman who identifies as a turtle is somehow on Oregon’s mental health advisory board
Vox Popoli: The Return to Sanity, RIP Bill Burr, Worse Than We Imagined, The Rot of Credentialism, and No More Pressing 2
Bugscuffle Gazette: Flexible Impact Weapons, Part The Last
Stoic Observations: Next Waddles, also, American Wag Revisited
Jim McCoy: A.K. Duboff’s Stranded, 
Toni Airaksinen: Fired Oregon Nurse Expressed Desire To Join Hamas
Upstream Reviews: The Dragon (Awards) Thunder In!
Gab: Defeating Technological Doom
Postcards From Barsoom: DIEing Academic Research Budgets
Bacon Time: 2025 5k #1
Cedar Sanderson: The Babycakes Quest

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: The Maritime State With Ross Kennedy, also, Breaking The Bad Houthi Habit
Dana Loesch: Activist Judges – A Look At Judge Chutkan
Don Surber: 47 Is Better Than 45
STUMP: The Week In Meep – Sumo, Sushi, & Dante!

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Rule 5 Sunday: Waitress on the Ramparts

Posted on | March 17, 2025 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Waitress on the Ramparts

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I should have posted this a couple weeks ago when Flappr posted that piece on Hooters going into bankruptcy, but I didn’t have it then.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

This is the minimum standard, Hooters.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule 5 Rich Get Richer Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Caesar the Musical, Julius Caesar, Three Little Maids From School Are We, MAGA – Ukraine, Now Russia, K-19 The Widowmaker, Snow White Panic Time, The Way, The Shift, Nadine Sierra Performs Gilda,  We Live In Time, Lalisa Manobal, Lost On A Mountain In Maine, and House of David

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Natalia Barulich Marion, Fish Pic Friday – Lauren Just Keeps Swimming, Supreme Court Denies Watermen Relief, The Schumer Shutdown Looms, Tattoo Thursday, Gone Fishin’, The Wednesday Wetness, Tuesday Tanlines, MD Watermen Take Stripers to the Supreme Court, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News and Palm Sunday 

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: Breakthrough!

Posted on | March 17, 2025 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Breakthrough!

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This was a good week to be a Senators fan. First we took two out of three from the Cardinals, losing only to Bob Gibson (and getting Carl Morton suspended for saying the Magic Words to Umpire Merriweather) and then we did the same to the visiting Tribe, who had swept us in our previous series. We also got Blue Moon Odom his first win in relief of Joe Coleman, who had given up two dingers to the Tribe and almost loaded the bases in the sixth before we called Odom in. Two innings later, Randy Hundley hit a sac fly to left scoring Nate Colbert, and Bob Johnson came in to nail down the save and the game in the ninth. Unfortunately we weren’t as lucky in the final game, where Spaceman Lee imploded early and Dave Sells blew the save and the game in the top of the 10th. Still, a 4-2 week has us tied with the Twins in third, four behind Pete’s Brewers and four games ahead of Oakland, who we’ll face on Tuesday. We’ll see if the bats stay hot and the rest of the bullpen holds up.
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Happy days are here again!

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FMJRA 2.0: Return to Mediocrity
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In The Mailbox: 03.11.25
A View From The Beach
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In The Mailbox: 03.12.25 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
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EBL

Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner: So I Guess I’m a San Francisco 49ers Fan Now 
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In The Mailbox: 03.13.25 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
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EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.13.25 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
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EBL

In The Mailbox 03.14.25
357 Magnum
EBL

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The Worst Pundits EVER!

Posted on | March 16, 2025 | Comments Off on The Worst Pundits EVER!

How could I have missed this? An opportunity for an easy dunk on the Lincoln Project? But in the aftermath of the 2024 election, there was just so much schadenfreude fodder that somehow this escaped my notice until today, when the YouTube algorithm directed me to a Canadian YouTuber’s LOL finger-pointing festival, and I knew immediately that I had to share this with y’all. So here’s the setup:

Saturday, November 2 — three days before the election, and the Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson records a podcast segment featuring his colleagues Stuart Stevens, Jeff Timmer and Trygve Olson. All of them declare with ironclad certainty that Kamala Harris is going to run the table in the “battleground” States and stomp Donald Trump into tiny orange smithereens. The fun begins when Wilson introduces his guests as “three of the most brilliant minds in American politics.” He starts with Olson, who says he’s spent the past week in Wisconsin where Harris “is on a trajectory” to win the state by a wider margin than Joe Biden did in 2020 (she lost Wisconsin by 30,000 votes). Then he cuts to Stu Stevens predicting that Harris will win nationwide by “about the same margin that Obama won in [his 2012 reelection campaign], like 3.9.” (LOL!) Next it’s Timmer’s turn and he describes himself as “fairly bullish.” Timmer then refers to Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, saying he’s been digging “down into the minutiae of the numbers” — poll numbers, presumably — as indicating “everything points toward a Harris win in all three of those states.” Wrong, wrong, and wrong! Not content to be batting 0-for-3 on those battlegrounds, Timmer goes on to speak confidently of “when [not if] Trump loses North Carolina,” before suggesting Trump might even lose Florida, because of what he foresees as a possibility that “the bottom drops out of Trump’s support.”

Now, I have merely shared a few quotes from the first three minutes of this pre-election Very Special Episode of the Lincoln Project podcast and my friends — they go on for a full half-hour this way!

Grab some popcorn, you’re going love it!

 



 

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Making Sense of Democrat Disarray and the Future of the MAGA Revolution

Posted on | March 16, 2025 | Comments Off on Making Sense of Democrat Disarray and the Future of the MAGA Revolution

We have had a pleasant couple of days laughing at the misery of the Democratic Party. After Chuck Schumer abandoned his threat of a government shutdown, grassroots Democrats erupted in fury at what they saw as Schumer’s “betrayal” of the anti-Trump cause:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez argued Schumer’s “almost unthinkable” move caused a “deep sense of outrage and betrayal” across the Dems’ ideological spectrum — and pointedly didn’t rule out a primary challenge against him.

Unfortunately for AOC’s dreams of running a Democratic primary campaign against Schumer, he won’t be up for election again until 2028, by which time he’ll be 77, and is more likely to retire than to seek a sixth term in the Senate. Three years is a long time in politics, and we can’t predict the future, but how likely is it that Schumer letting this continuing resolution pass in March 2025 will still be an issue in November 2028, even if he did decide to run again?

Democrats are divided and demoralized, and the angriest voices among them are also the loudest. They have lost their way in large measure because the Biden presidency, coming as it did on the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic and the George Floyd riots, was built on a foundation of delusion. It was possible, if you were a Democrat, to believe that Biden’s victory was a decisive rejection of everything Donald Trump represented, and that Democrats would never suffer any negative consequences for whatever errors of policy subsequently ensued.

Unfortunately for Democrats, the errors of the Biden era were numerous and quite harmful, and the appearance of the 2020 election as a decisive anti-Trump referendum proved to be an illusion. Once Biden’s cognitive decline became undeniable, and he was forced off the ticket in favor of Kamala Harris, there was a decisive shift in the other direction, yet even then Democrats remained in denial. The media kept hyping up the “joy” of Kamala’s campaign, and the usual suspects produced polls showing Harris leading Trump by four, five, even six points during that August/September period. They wanted to believe . . .

False hope turned to bitter disappointment, and Democrats have still never recovered from the psychological trauma of November 5.

Believing they had forever banished the Trump menace four years earlier, Democrats found themselves in a waking nightmare — Trump didn’t just squeak by with narrow margins in the so-called battleground states, as he had in 2016, but actually won the nationwide popular vote by a margin of 2 million votes. This wrecked their narrative about Trump’s first term, where the “Russian collusion” hoax promoted by Hillary Clinton had fostered the idea that Trump’s presidency was illegitimate. Now the shoe was on the other foot — anyone could compare the vote totals from 2024 with the totals from 2020 and see that some 6 million Democratic votes had mysteriously disappeared. Were they ever real? Did Biden actually win in 2020, or had Democrats stolen that election with their mail-in voting mischief and ballot-harvesting schemes?

Once the election was over, Biden drifted off to Delaware and, if the media tried to avoid making Kamala Harris the scapegoat for Democrats’ defeat, certainly her reputation asa a loser made it difficult for her to be viewed as a potential future party leader. Matt Margolis at PJMedia summarizes the Democrats’ current leaderless condition:

After their humiliating defeat in the government funding battle, a devastating new CNN poll shows the party’s favorability has cratered to an abysmal 29%—the lowest since 1992. The numbers don’t lie; this is a spectacular fall from grace.
The party has hemorrhaged support, suffering a jaw-dropping 20-point collapse in favorability since January 2021, when Joe Biden was inaugurated. . . .
The leadership vacuum is so profound that when asked who leads the Democratic Party, one respondent summed it up perfectly: “No one. That’s the problem.”

Now, take at the chart at the top of this post, from Ballotpedia, and you’ll see that 67% of Democrats in the House of Representatives were elected by margins of 15% or more. Life is easy for a Democrat in a D+15 district. Two-thirds of Hakeem Jeffries’ caucus don’t have to worry about getting reelected, ever. They can stay in Congress until the day they die. It is from the ranks of these Democrats in safe districts that the greatest rage against moderation or compromise will be heard. Alexandria Ocasia-Cortez was reelected by a margin of about 38 points — 69% to 31% — and can go as far out to the radical extreme as she wishes without any fear of electoral repercussions. But if she drags the rest of the Democratic caucus with her, that’s going to be a much smaller caucus, because it’s going to be hard for Democrats to compete in “battleground” districts if AOC is calling the shots. Let’s take a closer look at those districts:

Democrats face a problem of simple arithmetic — of the closest districts in the country, more are currently held by Democrats than by Republicans. So if, in the next midterm, each party were to flip half of the other party’s “battleground” districts, the result would be a net gain for Republicans. Of course, we can’t predict what the political climate will be in November 2018, but the Democrats have more members holding onto their House seats by slender margins, compared to Republicans. In fact, Republicans have more “safe” districts than do Democrats, by a significant margin. Even though Speaker Mike Johnson has a very narrow Republican majority, he has more protection against a complete wipeout in the midterms, whereas Democrats risk a net loss of seats, even in a midterm election where the president’s party historically loses congressional seats. If the GOP plays its cards right between now and November 2026, they have an opportunity to deal Democrats another shattering blow like they did last November.

If the “MAGA Revolution” seeks to have a lasting impact, there needs to be a laser-focused effort to achieve Republican victory in the 2026 midterms. Securing another two-year hold on majorities in both the House and the Senate, at a time when Democrats are unpopular and suffering a leadership vacuum, would bring about a real crisis for the “progressive” grassroots of the Democratic Party going into the 2028 presidential election campaign. The prospect that J.D. Vance (or whoever wins the GOP nomination in 2028) could win what would in effect be Trump’s third term? Oh, you think Democrats are panicking now, just you wait and see! Maintain the MAGA momentum another three or four years, and they’ll all be fleeing the country like Rosie O’Donnell.



 

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