Well, election night was fun, huh?
While socialists and far-left Democrats ran and won on their familiar anti-Trump platform, uniting behind their false claims that Trump is some kind of authoritarian fascist, Republicans spent weeks infighting over who had who on whose podcast. Across the internet and in appearances, Republican pundits, politicians, and podcasters took aim at each other.
They could have been out there demanding Virginians not elect Jay Jones to be top cop of their state after he fantasized about assassinating a Republican colleague and that man's children.
They could have told New Jerseyans that signing onto lawsuits to oppose the Trump administration, as new governor-elect Mikie Sherrill has promised to do, isn't as important as Jack Ciattarelli's platform of getting energy costs under control for the thruway state.
Republicans should have been talking to Pennsylvanians about the importance of bringing in moderate or conservative Supreme Court justices in Harrisburg instead of giving the same tired leftists another 10-year term.
They should have talked to California Republican voters about getting out and opposing Prop 50, which sets the stage for the state to eliminate their voting power entirely.
And importantly, instead of complaining about who Tucker Carlson had on his podcast—not primetime Fox News show but podcast—they could have fought to prevent the rise of actual, pure Marxist socialism in the world's financial capital, New York City.
They could have backed GOP candidate Curtis Sliwa, or pressured Andrew Cuomo to give New York's conservative voters any reason at all to vote for him instead of letting a Marxist run nearly unopposed.
But no. All that was given minimal effort by a GOP so obsessed with virtue signalling and purity tests that they sacrificed seeking wins for gaining own-goals. In a fruitless, pointless effort that only benefited the Democrat and Marxist opposition, Republicans worried themselves over the remarks of a young podcaster. That podcaster has lots of fans, sure, but he wasn't running to govern the world's greatest and America's biggest metropolis.
Yet again, Republicans disappointed en masse in elections they could have been victorious in throughout the country. In New York City, California, Georgia, and most essentially, Virginia and New Jersey, Republicans lost at every juncture possible as we watched radical Democrats take over New York, Virginia, and New Jersey.
On the one hand, all three battlegrounds of November 4th were historically blue areas. Virginia and New Jersey are about as blue as it gets, especially when it comes to midterm or non-presidential year elections. However, there were two races that most thought the Republicans at least had a good shot of picking up, or where they could have at least made a better showing.
The New Jersey gubernatorial race was viewed as a tight election headed into Tuesday. Former state legislator Jack Ciattarelli came close to defeating incumbent Governor Phil Murphy in 2021, and many thought an open-seat opportunity would get him even closer as he ran against Democratic Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill.
While the top of the ticket in Virginia was tough given Abigail Spanberger's popularity, the GOP gave that governorship to Democrats by not fighting hard enough and spending too much time futzing about the house yelling at each other instead of fighting the barbarians at the gate.
Republican incumbent Attorney General Jason Miyares was the favorite going into Tuesday. His opponent literally advocated for the death of his colleague and the man's children and when confronted about it, spewed some nonsense about how perhaps then that GOP colleague would make better policy decisions.
But the GOP was too busy infighting over a podcast and whether or not they should use the power the American people gave them to worry about turning out voters the way Democrats did in either state or in NYC. While Ciattarelli improved on his 2021 margins, Sherill turned out the vote near margins that Kamala Harris got in her presidential bid, and Miyares ran ahead of the top of the ticket, but not enough to even come close to winning the election, losing by around five points.
What use is the Republican Party if they don't want to win? What good is our media infrastructure if we just use it to put each other on blast and not to advocate for the causes we need to advance to save the United States of America?
Vice President JD Vance commented on the whole absurdity, saying, "The infighting is stupid. I care about my fellow citizens--particularly young Americans--being able to afford a decent life, I care about immigration and our sovereignty, and I care about establishing peace overseas so our resources can be focused at home. If you care about those things too, let's work together."
Is that really too much to ask? The Democrats excel at unity. The GOP needs to get it together or everything they've fought for will be lost, likely forever.
