Monday, November 14, 2022

Maybe America Hasn’t Suffered Enough

 Scott McKay

The red wave washed ashore as a ripple, though Republicans did make progress.

. . ."This should have been a massive wave election. Given the low job approval ratings of the sitting president in his first midterm election, and given the favorable generic congressional ballot numbers, this should have been a plus-five wave in the Senate and a plus-30 wave, or bigger, in the House. It also should have resounded down to statehouses, and yet the GOP turns out, apparently, not to have been able to beat abysmal Democrat gubernatorial candidates like Katie Hobbs, Kathy Hochul, and Gretchen Whitmer.

"There are so many utterly horrid Democrats who will remain in office after this election that it should be offensive to average Americans. It’s tempting to fall into the trap of believing there must be wholesale corruption in American elections, but the problem with going there is that there must be proof before it’s actionable.

"Until some is presented, we’ll have to deal with something very unpleasant. Namely, here’s the truth that we on the Right are going to have to accept: the American electorate in 2022 is awful.

"And the axiom about the cycle that involves weak men and tough times is a real thing, and we are in the worst quadrant of that cycle.

"We are still in the time in which weak men make tough times. We have not gotten to the point where tough times make tough men.

"But get ready because those tough times will do their work. Perhaps for quite a long while.

"Somehow, the Democrats and their pals in the legacy media managed to convince a large swath of Americans that we’re not in a recession. Four in five Americans are unsatisfied with the economy, a large majority seem to be furious about gas prices, people say crime is out of control, and yet barely half of the country — if that — are motivated to unload the horrid leadership that caused those issues.

"Look at the state New York is in, and yet the voters there overwhelmingly chose to retain Hochul?". . .

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