THE RED WAVE FIZZLES OUT

   Unlike a lot of writers, I actually hate it sometimes when my predictions come true. All year long, I've been saying---to the chagrin of the die-hard Republican loyalists---that there would be no 'Red Wave' in November, and there wasn't. Outside of a few states controlled by the Bush Machine (e.g. Florida, Texas, and Ohio), the GOP repeated 2021 and got beaten pretty much everywhere else. 

  As of this writing, and as predicted, the GOP lost governorships, failed to take the Senate, and may have (and probably did) fail to take the House. This against a bunch of very vulnerable and defeatable Democratic candidates. 

  The vultures in the Corporate Media are of course delighted; and have already begun spinning their talking-points. Just as predictably none of their reasons are even close to the truth. Here are a few of them:

   1. Voters were outraged over the repeal of Roe vs. Wade. Killing babies is such a high priority to these fanatics, they think it's true of everybody else. The reality is that even their own polls showed that just recently abortion wasn't a high priority for voters. In fact, several independent polls suggest that most Americans actually agree with the Court's decision.

  2. That the claims of the 2020 Election Fraud were seen as extreme by the voters. In actuality, outside of solid Democratic strongholds, this wasn't considered an extreme position at all. By my informal count so far, about a dozen successful State and local candidates for Secretary of State (the people who certify elections) are so-called 'election deniers.' 

   3. Orange Man Bad. The Media was quick to pounce on the fact that many of Trump's endorsed candidates were defeated. They also discreetly overlooked the fact that many of President-in Exile's endorsed candidates actually won. 

   Now for the real reasons:

  1. I think that---with the possible exception of the 1996 Bob Dole Campaign---the Republicans managed to run one of the most inept campaigns in recent history. Symbolism over Substance was the dominant theme. They criticized the Junta, but failed to come up with a single viable solution for solving any of the problems they addressed; other than vague threats of series of future pointless investigations and hearings.

  2. The Republicans failed to stand for issues important to anybody. They mostly crawfished on Roe v. Wade; never criticized the Scamdemic (although the Democrats handed them a plea for 'amnesty' on a silver platter). Failing schools, wealth-redistribution to Corporate America, and collapsing infrastructure went unaddressed. 

  3. They ran incompetent candidates. Dr. Oz, Herschel Walker, Kari Lake and other 'celebrities' who are good at making speeches and nothing else. They also ran several Alt-Right candidates who actually energized independents to vote against them.

  4. They failed to address voter integrity. While the overall campaign was so poorly managed that the usual Voter Fraud wasn't as conspicuous as usual; nonetheless most candidates ran as though 2018 and 2020 never happened and expected the DNC Machine to play fair. 

  All of these factors had one significant result: they failed to win Independents and average Americans. While the strategy worked fairly well for GOP Governors who were never-Trumpers and lockdown thugs themselves (e.g. DeWine, Dunlevy, McMaster, Abbott, Ivey, Sununu, Little) Conservatives and Constitutionalists  suffered the brunt. In fine, the Right lost and wholly deserved to lose.

  This is what the American Right gets for trying to beat the Left at their own Game; for trying to game the system instead of making it work; for trying to prove that they were the biggest Alphas on the block (even if a few were 'strong independent women' lol) and being 'tougher' than the already-ruthless Democrats; for running candidates with big mouths and no brains; for leaving treacherous RINOs and Neocons in important positions; and for thinking that all we lacked are 'leaders' upon whom they could shove responsibility for their own problems. 

  The American People in general may have a lot of faults, but to their credit they generally don't like bullies and jerks. Running an election on a platform of being a bigger bully and a jerk than the incumbents is rarely a winning strategy. Don't think that wasn't a factor in exit-polls about voters 'fearing for the future of Democracy' although the MSM is going to spin it in the opposite direction and blame Trump and the Jan 6 Protesters. 

  The aftermath of this failure to grip Reality is going to be a major disaster. Now the Junta---with their Media parrots squawking in unison---can pretend that they have a popular mandate to march forward with their Great Reset schemes. It makes no difference if the GOP manages to squeak out a one-or-two vote Congressional Majority: Congress will be so gridlocked that nothing will come of it. The Junta's terrible poll numbers demonstrate that they really have no such mandate; but that won't matter to them since they lack any opposition. 

  The worst mistake that the Right can make now is accepting the inevitable repeat of 2020 and listening to hired pundits who want to blame Trump and move away from Trumpism and back towards Bush Machine Neoconservatism. In the next few weeks, expect a major push from the Controlled Opposition Media in that very direction. The upcoming months will tell us whether the Right has learned anything from 2020 and 2022 or not.