Well, the Democrats spent about $40M to try and win a seat in a purplish district and failed. Pajama Boy not only underperformed Hillary in the district; he got fewer votes than the 2016 Democrat candidate in 2016.
So, maybe they need to up the ante and, in 2018, spend $50M on each of the 25 districts they need to retake the House. A cool $1.25 Billion. (About what Hillary spent in 2016, BTW.)
One potential fly in the ointment… the Democrat Party is broke and had a terrible fundraising month in May.
Many Democrats really believe that recruiting clones of Liz Warren and Kamala Harris and engaging in more street violence will help them flip red districts in the Midwest to blue. It won’t.
Nothing preps you for next election more than concluding your team is too virtuous to win & voters are too evil or dumb to see the truth. – Jonah Goldberg
A few Democrats recognize that normal Americans care about the economy, (also, border security, and protecting civil society from terrorism {the Trump agenda}). Not a phony, “Russia Russia Russia” scandal ginned up by Hillary Clinton campaign operatives after losing an election, or phony, virtue-signaling issues like Transgender locker rooms for teenagers. But all of the money and power in the Democrat Party is held by wealthy people in Washington, New York, San Francisco, and Chicago.
(BTW: It also looks like Trump was right about illegal voters. There may have been five million or more of them in the 2016 election.)
Honestly, the best shot the Democrats have at retaking the House and Senate in 2018 is for Republicans to continue to sabotage the Trump agenda. The Republican Establishment may despise PDT, but Republican voters want border security, want tax and regulatory reform to help grow the economy, want a revitalized manufacturing sector, and want a rational policy response to the growing threat of Islamic Supremacist terror. If Republicans in Congress don’t deliver on this agenda, then they will bodily function away their majority. The only question is whether they hate Trump more than they love their phony-baloney jobs.
Because I didn’t want the post to be any more meandering than it already was, I left out this quote from Politico:
As I have been saying, they suffer from malignant narcissism. They have a worldview that they KNOW is right, and continue to try and get the rest of the world to share despite the world showing them that it isn’t so.
This should not surprise those of us that know socialism, how in the century it has existed as an actual political reality, it has caused more suffering and death than any other ideology. Yes, proponents keep trying.
Some Democrats are waking up. Whether they will wake up enough to leave the party is a good question, seeing as we have a Republican Establishment that is almost as narcissistic.
OT: Trinity College professor calls whites “inhuman assholes” and exhorts to “…let them die…” https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9334
Ref #1; This would even apply to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the great ‘new hope’ and fresh-blood of the Party, is currently 68-yo. In their zeal for continued-power, the leadership of both parties have refused to make-way for younger, more vital members.
Err, …someone find Sen. McCain and escort him back to his office. He’s wandered-off again…”
I believe the Congress knows that they’re toast if they don’t support Trump. Whether overrated (for courtesy’s sake) Ryan & McConnell (who has a problem multi-tasking) are able to wrangle people into shape is another question. Remember, Scalise is the House Whip & he’s out of commission. He inherits previous clout, lists, blackmail points & further to get people to vote as they should. It’s not good that he’s not there. The House Majority Leader, that idiot from California (who’s a walking talking California Republican idiot) is supposed to take up the slack. Obviously, he’s not up to the job or is as myopic as McConnell. There’s 3 or 4 holdout Republicans that need to be appeased. Appease them! The White House has said it hasn’t even endorsed the new healthcare bill. Which is a part of Trump’s agenda.
Note: McConnell, years ago, said he’s capable of doing more than one thing at a time. Which is an out & out lie.
They need to get to the border wall funding after healthcare. It’s symbolism to Trump’s success is HUGE. Tax reform, I don’t know. McConnell is also capable of, by virtue of his power, intimidating House members.
Congress is what it is. Trump’s been nice to Ryan giving him every benefit of the doubt. What choice does Trump have? Undermine the person that he needs to get things done. I believe McConnell & Ryan are doing their best but we all remember they caved in when it came to standing up to Obama. It’s who they are.
Frustration in an age of Republican weakness.
I find it amazing, the way Jonah Goldberg can say something smart out of one side of his mouth and immediately say something stupid out of the other side.
His book, “Liberal Fascism” is a must read for all, btw.