Be Afraid?

Several scary observations about election night:

• The Democratic turnout machine is quite strong.
• The new populist Trumpista GOP base only turns out for Trump—and he is never going to be on the ballot again—except in the minds of Democrats and remaining Bulwark, Vox and MSNBC employees, all of whom fear and loathe him.
• Democratic voters no longer care how bad their leadership, policies and program outcomes really are. They increasingly vote tribally and uncritically, like African-American women always have.
• Complete sentences are no longer required to motivate the core female (and female-adjacent) base of the Democratic Party: "Abortion,” “Trump,” “Billionaires/The Rich,” “Health Care,” “MAGA”… are sufficient to make the Eloi march in lockstep.
• The cynicism of Democratic leaders has no bottom. The Schumer shutdown as an electoral motivating factor for the very people it hurts most is reminiscent of Confederate states recruiting blacks to serve in the army to help defeat Lincoln’s agenda.

I don't know how to quantify the elderly aged-hippy vote, nor can I say how large the insulated and uninformed youngest cohort of voters is, but I despair of any outreach to those people who, together with some vested interests, likely provide a 35-45% cushion for even the worst possible Democratic candidates.

Gavin Newsom, brazenly looking to steal even more House seats, recognizes that the elections in 2026 and 2028 will either kill the project of importing illegals onto already untidy voter rolls and thus kill the larger leftist project for a generation, OR it will bring about a lasting victory for the anti-constitutional, anti-American socialist movement from which the country will not recover. The hard left does not need an actual majority if they control the majority party with its masses of knee-jerk zombie voters. The comparatively marginal policy differences at stake in a Bush-Kerry or Carter-Ford election seem quaintly polite and very unlike the all-or-nothing outcomes emerging at present.

Meanwhile, Trump is foolishly advancing the Democratic agenda by calling for the end of the filibuster when it was the filibuster that has prevented a 15-member Dem-appointed supermajority SCOTUS, senators from Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, a virtual repeal of the Second Amendment, statutorily enshrined election cheating, instant citizenship for illegals...

Imagine how much damage that Speaker AOC and a filibuster-free Senate Majority Leader Warren could do under a Newsom Administration and all under the watchful eye of SCOTUS Chief Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.