This year's Midterm Elections were certainly a relief to some and a disappointment to others. I know some religiously conservative Christians who, despite the threats made to what's left of our democracy, were hoping for a red tidal wave in hopes of furthering restrictions on abortion. And so some pro-life voters were sorely disappointed.
Another group that was depressed after enough of the votes were counted were the Trumpublicans. The Trumpublicans had the 2024 Presidential Election in their gun sights. But the midterm results have now obscured their vision. They were hoping that if they put enough election deniers into the right offices, they could use this years elections to guarantee Trump Presidency in 2024 despite the popular vote. After all, winning the Presidency via electoral votes has fewer negative legal consequences than storming the Capitol. Who would have thought?
But there were those who were at least relieved by this year's election results if not delighted. Some Never-Trump voters were hoping that these midterm results might finally displace Trump from leading the Party so that they could return to their political home. So though it might not be accurate to say that they were delighted, these results must have at least partially pleased them.
There are some not commonly thought of pro-lifers who were relieved and delighted by this year's elections. This group is pro-life not by virtue of their position on abortion, but because of their support for social safety nets and belief in what climate scientists are telling us to do.
Also relieved were people like me who see the Trumpublicans as not only failing to be adequately pro-life in terms of their support for social safety nets and belief in what climate scientists say, but who pose a self-righteous threat to democracy through their irresponsible promotion of Trump's Big Lie. Trumpublican candidates for state Secretary of State offices were taking a Trumpian approach to Post Modernism. That is that they would not accept a 2024 election as being valid if the voters voted blue. Pennsylvania's Republican gubernatorial candidate was promising to do the same. And that could easily result in preventing the Democratic Presidential candidate from winning the 2024 Electoral College vote which, in turn, would throw the election to the House of Representatives regardless of how the voters voted. And because of how the House of Representatives would select the President, that would throw the Presidency to the Republican candidate.
Needless to say that most of Trump's endorsed candidates were not selected by the voters. All 4 of Trump's endorsed state Secretary of State candidates lost. Trump's endorsed Senatorial and Gubernatorial candidates in Pennsylvania lost and that involved a flipping of a Senate seat. The Dems have retained control of the Senate regardless of the outcome of Georgia's runoff election. Here we should note that the Senate elected in 2020 has shown that Democratic control of either chamber of Congress is not much to brag about.
And so there was no red wave. There might be a Republican take over of the House, but not the Senate. Some key state governorships were either maintained by Democratic Party candidates or are in danger of falling to Democratic candidates. Perhaps the Republican Party leadership will hear what the voters are singing about Trump. Perhaps the Republican Party leadership will understand that for as long as they rely on Trump to be their figurehead, the Republican Party will be known as the Party of and to the January 6 Insurrection. Perhaps the Republican Party leadership will see that Trump is becoming a liability to their Party. Those who have family members who are part of the Trump political cult can only hope. And just perhaps, the Republican Party leadership who are unwilling to throw Trump under the bus would consider replacing him with another Republican Party bus driver.
No comments:
Post a Comment