I mean I’m not eager to see any kind of Democrat gains in Congress this fall, but frankly looking around at my own circle, it’s grim. Not as in, people who voted for Trump in 2024 are going to vote Democrat. More like people who voted Trump in 2024 are disillusioned and pissed off and quite a few of them are liable to stay home this time.
It’s not the ballroom, although yeah, optics suck on that. Better to have called it a bunker and added an overt element of “fuck you” to the whole thing but w/e. No, the thing is the war. All the moderates/weirdos/free thinker types who broke from whatever they were before 2016 to turn MAGA when holy shit, we actually had anti-war Republican candidate? They’re off the train. I don’t understand why this board likes to gloss over how much that burns people’s asses.
It’s not full doom and gloom exactly. I’m not seeing anybody pulling a 180 and cheering for the left because of it. But you’re lying to yourself if you think anybody feels cool about paying higher gas prices and continuing to wallow in a stagnating economy while we waste time, cash, and a closing window of opportunity LARPing the GWOT.
Something good needs to happen. Something normal people can see and feel themselves.