This should have been a massive wave election
- Given the low job approval ratings of the sitting president in his first midterm election, and favorable generic congressional ballot numbers, Republicans should have easily won the Senate and House.
- It should have resounded down to statehouses, and yet the GOP turns out, apparently, not to have been able to beat abysmal Democrat gubernatorial candidates.
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.
We are 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 is motivated to unload the leadership that caused those issues.
Gas prices will skyrocket
- The Biden administration is running out of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
The responsibility of the American public was to deliver an utter rebuke to the Left and the Democrat Party that the Left runs, and the 2022 election was not a rebuke
- The voters took a look at the Republican Party and they don't prefer Mitch McConnell to Chuck Schumer - or, if they do, not by a lot.
- And they didn't see much of anything out of the GOP that they thought was worth voting for, even if they thought the Democrats were no better.
- This isn't a new problem. It's the reason Donald Trump rose as the party's surprise nominee in 2016 and why he's the leading figure within the party still. The problem is that too many people who would be GOP voters think of it as a Bush Republican Party - and if the numbers on Kari Lake and Blake Masters persist in Arizona, those people might be right.
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