Former Trump campaign chairman and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon told his podcast viewers that Republicans should take Tuesday night’s losses to heart, saying: “The midterms start tonight, and the warning signs are flashing.” He observed that “Democrats just flipped two Georgia commissioners,” marking “their first statewide wins in 30 years.”

Far-right influencer Mike Cernovich (who spawned the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory) tweeted: “Ted Cruz and Mark Levin are walking Trump into impeachments and then prison. 2026 will be a blood bath.” MAGA podcaster Jack Posobiec likewise warned that “2026 will be worse if we don’t course-correct.”

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    3 hours ago

    She was the objectively better candidate in 2024, but she was also objectively a trash candidate. Electing her would have meant continued acceptance of a political mindset and process that has reliably and consistently given us trash candidates for decades.

    2024 was as good a time as any to give up on the DNC.

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      6 hours ago

      I’d agree with your first sentence 100%. I would love to see statistics on the moral non voters and how involved they were with getting GOOD candidates elected though. I’m sure we could guess how involved they were.

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        4 hours ago

        I would love to see statistics on the moral non voters and how involved they were

        The way you phrased that, the answer is tautologic: statistically, 100% of them were “involved”.

        Their involvement may not have extended much beyond a blanket rejection of everyone the DNC tried to shove down our throats, but they were certainly “involved”.

        I would go just a little bit further and say that they were involved in the only way that actually matters.