Fredocons, squishes and timeservers were a big part of the problem, per my new @townhallcom column!
“A gratifying response to the absolute disaster last Tuesday has been the fact that Republicans in general have started a good-faith debate about what the hell happened and what we should do next. Oh yeah, there are some schmucks in there gloating, and a few grifters are trying to leverage the disaster to resurrect their garbage Bush-era brand of uniparty decline, but they don’t count. Mike Pence, for example, weighed in, but he weighs nothing — the guy couldn’t be more of a lightweight, and the notion that anyone cares what Mike Pence says, whose name isn’t Mike Pence, is positively hilarious.
We’re going to be hashing this out for a while. One of the things to consider among dozens of factors is the total failure of the kind of “normal” Republican that is supposedly the common-sense, adult-in-the-room alternative to those wacky MAGA guys who allegedly blow easy layup elections. Yet, if you look at who blew easy layup elections, and some not-so-easy layup elections this time, the real surprises came from those staid and steady Republicans that don’t upset the women or the horses.”
One Big Midterm Lesson: No More GOP Zombie Hacks
Democrats who think voters embraced their policies last week should look at how they voted on 164 state ballot initiatives. It tells a different story. https://kellyjohnston.substack.com/p/silver-linings-playbook
Democratic Socialists are getting their collective war paint and weapons ready for the recess attacks on Jeffries and Schumer!
Just sit back and watch them!
Here's the crow-eating edition of "How I Got the 2026 Completely Wrong." And the lessons learned. https://kellyjohnston.substack.com/p/lessons-from-the-blue-tsunami
