Republicans lost… a-gain.
The race to replace goofball conman George Santos, who was expelled from the House, came down to two Democrats: former Rep. Tom Suozzi, who won, and Mazi Pilip who ran as a Republican although being a Democrat her entire short political career. The New York GOP chose her to replace Santos. She has an interesting background for an “ideal” Republican that supposedly would be amenable to centrist New York Democrats (is there such a thing?): she’s an immigrant Ethiopian Jew, mother of seven, and was a member of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). Sounds badass to me.
But all for naught. She lost. I don’t know if she was a good candidate or not but that really isn’t the point. She lost because the Democrats utilized early voting—including the dreaded mail-in ballots—and a convenient blizzard on election day, thus the urgency to vote early.
Usually this loss would have solicited a yawn. The 214-213 vote to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas, however, begs to differ. With Suozzi, the vote would have failed. The self-righteous Republicans put themselves in this quandary. Yes, Santos was a pretty scummy kind of guy. Is he the scummiest? Maybe the House should have looked toward the Senate where you have to ask Democrat Bob Menendez, who’s still in office, whether that’s a gold bar in his pocket or is he just happy to see you?
Self-righteousness only works for the pure. Republicans are far from that and so Santos should have remained in office until convicted of a crime. And what about the self-righteous Kevin McCarthy? What a self-serving slime ball. He was elected by his constituents to represent them. Granted, he was a failed Speaker but he should have stayed until his term ended. Now, one seat lost to the Democrats with one more special election to go. They pissed away the “red tide” of 2022. Now they are in the process of swamping their bare majority.
What is the Republican National Committee doing to help out? Ronna Romney McDaniel would rather spend one and a half million bucks on flower arrangements and limos. Under her watch, Republicans have lost in three national elections. I understand that the RNC usually doesn’t participate in congressional elections but this was for all of the marbles. Toss some breadcrumbs and their fabulous “ground game” to New York and see if they could have salvaged a win. But they didn’t even try.
They haven’t learned a damn thing. Despite the momentum, Trump may lose because they won’t get down in the gutter with the Democrats. Better to keep your “dignity” than actually try to rescue the nation. Luckily, one Romney is out and the other will be after November.
We, all Americans, have not done well with this self-government thing. We keep voting for this disaster. However, we can take solace that we don’t have many choices when we venture forth to cast our vote—between sleaze and sleazier. Of course, that’s what the politicos want: a populace that is mind numb and willing to go along to get along.
The difference between the two parties, as it now sits, is that one has become blinded by the acquisition of power while the other is at war with itself to decide who, in fact, belongs in the party.
The Republican Party is becoming the party that the Democrats were before Bill Clinton. They’re attracting the everyman: the worker, the small business owner, the farmer, the truck driver, and the everyday middle American who is simply looking for their place in the sun—the old Reagan coalition. It’s become so because the Democrats ignored their own base. Republicans could become the majority national party if their old core country club elitist snobs would just get the hell out of the way. But they won’t. They’ve ruled over an irrelevant political movement for almost a century—giving polite nods to the brief Ronald Reagan period while treating Donald Trump like castor oil—and seem only interested in feeling important.
The Democrats, however, tried to extend their reach into the abyss of identity politics by going after one to two percent of the electorate—the trans lobby—and a less than two percent segment of creepy Ivy League lefties that support Antifa, BLM, and Hamas. They already had that support by the simple fact that no one in those identity groups would ever support a Republican.
But then who would have thought that minorities would kick the tires of the Republican clunker? They are.
Democrats are about to be left with only progressive blue-hair Karens and Tesla-driving elitist snobs from Blue urban enclaves. And yet, somehow, Democrats still command a strong position among the electorate-at-large. At some point the tensions that are arising within the party will snap and there’s a moderate chance the party will dissolve into irrelevance in national elections—much like the Labour Party in the U.K.—unless they’re able to seize complete control before that happens.
The Democrats could flip the switch and relegate Donald Trump to a chaotic blip on the radar of national history by doing one thing: Mend their fences with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and run him in place of Biden.
RFK, Jr., with the backing of a major political party, could stomp the Republican ticket. He would reacquire the union voters, capture all of the black vote, take in the Never Trumpers, and might even pull in some wobbly Trump support—in other words he’d put the Democrat Party back where it was before Clinton. They do not need the two to three percent of misfits that they are currently courting.
There is a precedent. His father entered the Democratic primary late during the 1968 campaign and had energized the party to the point that he would have put up a strong challenge to Richard Nixon.
But they won’t do it. They’re using the law, or the illusion of law, to go after every major threat to them gaining and retaining power. RFK, Jr. is absolutely no exception.
Is RFK, Jr. the answer to solving the problems in the nation? Absolutely not. Beside being the anti-covid warrior and wanting to destroy the military industrial complex and the intelligence apparatus, that’s about all he has. Here’s an overview of his key issues.
He is, like the rest of his family, still a government-can-do-good-if-properly-managed type guy. That’s the point, it can’t be properly managed. It must be a prisoner that is guarded with absolute brute force lest it escape and consume America. I think after eight years of Obama and three plus years of Biden and the Democrats, most rational people now know this to be true.
The problem is that rational people are lost in the crashed supply chain.
[Correction from last piece: With my feeble attempt at humor, I ruined it by calling Venn diagrams, vin. My ignorance knows no bounds.]