These types of guys are reflexively contrarian. They are only motivated to vote by performatively anti-establishment candidates. They voted for Trump, but they also would have voted for Bernie. The GOP is going to lose these votes when Trump isn’t on the ballot, but Democrats won’t pick many of them up unless they start running more populists candidates like Mamdani.

Epstein distraction

Americans will put up with a lot, but the extrajudicial killing of white people would be a bridge too far for most

AIPAC is going to have to start “backing” the candidates they want to lose

Well it must not be because of trans people, because they would have released that shit

This better not be true. This was the whole reason I voted for him.

But Elon said “DeMocRaTs R teH ParTy oF VioLenCe”

Probably some specific memory Trump has of seeing a cup with “too many pencils, why do you need so many pencils???” 40 years ago. Just like the doll thing. There are more modern, relevant examples of discretionary spending he could have chosen, but his brain is mush from 1985.

Texas is still a red state, so statewide races like Ted’s US Senate seat are a stretch. Though Beto amazingly got within 2 points in 2018!

That’s pretty messed up, but according to the article they only sent that letter out to a couple thousand people, which is not many in a state that size. It’s going to be hard for them to mess with voting eligibility on a large scale. Even stuff like this (which could be illegal), where they make some people jump through extra hoops to be able to vote, could end up depressing more Republican votes than Democratic ones. The big political realignment of the past 10 years has be largely along education lines - those with 4-year degrees or more sorting to Democrats, and those with less education sorting to Republicans. This flips the old system (poor Dems/rich Republicans) on its head. Things like voter ID laws, which are intended to inconvenience and depress the vote of people who don’t have their shit together, aren’t going to disproportionately hurt Democrats the way they used to, and could in fact have the reverse effect.

Red states are redrawing their districts based on 2024 margins. This may bite them in the ass, especially in Texas, if they expect their massive gains with Latinos to hold after the ICE horror show and terrible economy. All of their new R+8 gerrymandered districts might not be as safe as they thought in a D+10 midterm.

It’s real, and it’s spectacular