A little political analysis from someone who never voted for Trump yet is sympathetic to what MAGA types thought they were getting with Trump.
Democrats are trying to sell this election cycle as a repudiation of MAGA.
But think about that claim for a moment.
In New Jersey you have a traditionally deep blue state. DEEP BLUE. In 2024 NJ voted 52% for Camel Harris while Trump received 46%. We see here that the Republicans improved their vote in NJ. The fact that the Republican Gov. candidate came within 3 points of the DEM winner is not a repudiation of MAGA but should be interpreted as huge trouble for DEMS going forwards in states that are not as deep blue.
Virginia in the 2024 election cycle was a mirror image of NJ in terms of percentage of vote going to each candidate. Harris wins Vg. in 2024 and the DEMS win the Gov. race in Vg handily. Winsome Earl-Sears was not a good candidate to run as Republican in Vg., which IMO explains her thorough trouncing. Still, a blue state went blue. If this is a repudiation of MAGA it is a repudiation by states that have consistently been repudiating MAGA and so it tells us nothing about the political temperature of the nation.
New York city is one of the most blue cities in the nation…. and that’s saying a ton. The fact that Mamdani beats Cuomo is not a repudiation of MAGA but a repudiation of sanity.
One tidbit from these elections is that the Democratic party is now owned by its most extreme left (Marxist) wing. Mamdani’s win was a repudiation of the old guard Schumer, Pelosi, Cuomo, and even Hakeem Jeffries. Jeffries is now going to be taking marching orders from AOC and the squad. Mamdani’s victory in NYC means you’ll be seeing more of these Marxists candidates being offered up by the Democratic party. The only way that will change is if they are soundly trounced in subsequent elections.
Another reality these elections demonstrated again is how deeply divided the country is. These Marxists hate the shallow Republicans. Their hate is only intensified when one moves beyond the neo-con wing of the Republican party to consider the ever growing Groyper contingent in the Republican party.
I believe we are clearly at a point where there is no longer a center in American politics. When you add to the above that Virginia put a man into the Attorney General’s office who was exposed as wishing murder upon an opponent and death for that opponent’s children it is clear that there is no center… no moderate position … no room for compromise among the hard left and the hard right.
How far are we away from re-enacting street fights between latter day Brown shirts and latter day KPD (Communists)? We’ve already seen some of that in Charlottesville, Virginia a few years ago. It would be easy to characterize what happened to the Kyle Rittenhouse event as a light version of Brown Shirts vs. KPD. The largely unopposed rioting following the George Floyd suicide was a case of the Marxists being set loose to burn cities.
We have a serious problem here that our elections are revealing to those with eyes to see. We have to take the mindset that if Christian Nationalists don’t triumph over the Marxists we who consider ourselves Christian Nationalists (and who the Marxists consider Fascists) will have to start thinking about life in resurrected gulags.
Triumph is not going to come by way of voting for either side of the equation.
There is, IMO, a concerted effort to continuously drive a wedge between the left and right to the point of open and violent street confrontations that will enable the enactment of martial law–precisely what the oligarchy wants. When that happens it’s light out for this nation.
That’s a gem of an observation Mark.
Well , If mark and a few other friends were the only people saying it I
Wouldn’t mind or even care that much but he is not the only person saying it . Normies are also saying it some are elected officials some are business owners some catholic some are not affiliated with any church