Former Trump campaign chairman and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon told his podcast viewers that Republicans should take Tuesday night’s losses to heart, saying: “The midterms start tonight, and the warning signs are flashing.” He observed that “Democrats just flipped two Georgia commissioners,” marking “their first statewide wins in 30 years.”
Far-right influencer Mike Cernovich (who spawned the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory) tweeted: “Ted Cruz and Mark Levin are walking Trump into impeachments and then prison. 2026 will be a blood bath.” MAGA podcaster Jack Posobiec likewise warned that “2026 will be worse if we don’t course-correct.”
She was the objectively better candidate in 2024, but she was also objectively a trash candidate. Electing her would have meant continued acceptance of a political mindset and process that has reliably and consistently given us trash candidates for decades.
2024 was as good a time as any to give up on the DNC.
I’d agree with your first sentence 100%. I would love to see statistics on the moral non voters and how involved they were with getting GOOD candidates elected though. I’m sure we could guess how involved they were.
The way you phrased that, the answer is tautologic: statistically, 100% of them were “involved”.
Their involvement may not have extended much beyond a blanket rejection of everyone the DNC tried to shove down our throats, but they were certainly “involved”.
I would go just a little bit further and say that they were involved in the only way that actually matters.
I’d say the most important way to get involved is actually helping true progressives in the primary. I guess we’ll have differing opinions on if staying home and doing the same thing you’d do every day vs. attempting to get leftists elected is more important.
I know no one is changing their opinions on this.
We can spend 80 hours a week from now until the midterms, promoting progressives. The question is what we should do when those leftists don’t actually appear on the ballot. Until the DNC realizes centrist candidates can’t win a general election, it doesn’t really matter what we do in the primaries.
When there are no progressives to vote for, rejecting their garbage candidates is the only path to progress.