2018 Midterm Election
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Can’t count the votes that aren’t cast.how is receiving less votes than the previous election considered a victory?
Fewer votes, not less.how is receiving less votes than the previous election considered a victory?
https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/less-versus-fewer
With the Senate more firmly in the hands of the GOP the House can be as ineffective as they want to be and as cooperative as they want to be.
They can spend the two years in a temper tantrum or they can do their jobs. Either way, without the Senate they can't lay a glove on the President. Just look at how Sen. Harry Reid was able to protect President Obama.
(sigh)
Once again I have to educate you......the Senate is by far the most important of the two Houses, for a couple of reasons. Most importantly, the Senate confirms presidential nominations to the SCOTUS, which will influence the direction of the USA for decades to come.
Give him a break Colpy, he had a tough night. He was expecting a Blue Wave and only got a ripple.
Project Veritas Exposes Beto Staffers Claiming Tons of Illegals Voting
Lol well guess what losers are claiming something like that!
Well at least in wasn't a Blue Wave.
The Senate deals with borders, treaties, immigration, Constitutional law. The House deals with entitlements, equity, practical justice.
The results seems ot affirm Trump's economic and cultural nationalism. The result was not about immigration, 'tone', 'racism', AGW, Kavanaugh (and Roe v. Wade, homosexual marriage).
Trump lost the House because of his Tax Bill which was rightly seen as a bill for the rich, as regressive and, as reinforcement of the polarization of wealth that is at core of the divided America (and the rest of the West). And he lost it because of his Health Care proposals which would not cover pre-existing conditions and was a sell out to the private Health Insurance industry.
American politics have two original impulses. That of rugged, individual self reliance, and, that of sustaining, protective community. The former is the banner platform the NeoCon Republicans and is closely aligned with nationalism; the latter the banner of the NeoLib Democrats and is closely aligned with populism. There doesn't seem to be a middle ground any more.
Trump's challenge will be to reestablish the link between nationalism and populism and to do that he'll have to cut his ties with the NeoCon Republican Establishment (with their mantra of privatization (especially Medicare and Social Security); deregulation (especially banks, trusts, markets); free trade; regressive taxation. They are true economic liberals (and corporate shills), and, have no affinity for real economic progressivism (defined as equitable distribution of wealth). Nor does the Democrat Establishment which is primarily about feminist, homosexual, eco utopian cults not about working families.
Trump's original sense of a nationalist, populist, economically progressive, dirigiste electoral franchise, contained within a rational and unified moral structure, is still there. Keeping himself out of the clutches of both party's establishments is the trick.
I've no doubt the the Dems will use their majority to torment Trump and his administration.. likely to their own disadvantage in 2020. The American Electorate does not view Trump with the villainy ascribed to him by the Dem Establishment. He has just lost the focus of his proposal.
The Senate deals with borders, treaties, immigration, Constitutional law. The House deals with entitlements, equity, practical justice.
The results seems ot affirm Trump's economic and cultural nationalism. The result was not about immigration, 'tone', 'racism', AGW, Kavanaugh (and Roe v. Wade, homosexual marriage).
Trump lost the House because of his Tax Bill which was rightly seen as a bill for the rich, as regressive and, as reinforcement of the polarization of wealth that is at core of the divided America (and the rest of the West). And he lost it because of his Health Care proposals which would not cover pre-existing conditions and was a sell out to the private Health Insurance industry.
American politics have two original impulses. That of rugged, individual self reliance, and, that of sustaining, protective community. The former is the banner platform the NeoCon Republicans and is closely aligned with nationalism; the latter the banner of the NeoLib Democrats and is closely aligned with populism. There doesn't seem to be a middle ground any more.
Trump's challenge will be to reestablish the link between nationalism and populism and to do that he'll have to cut his ties with the NeoCon Republican Establishment (with their mantra of privatization (especially Medicare and Social Security); deregulation (especially banks, trusts, markets); free trade; regressive taxation. They are true economic liberals (and corporate shills), and, have no affinity for real economic progressivism (defined as equitable distribution of wealth). Nor does the Democrat Establishment which is primarily about feminist, homosexual, eco utopian cults not about working families.
Trump's original sense of a nationalist, populist, economically progressive, dirigiste electoral franchise, contained within a rational and unified moral structure, is still there. Keeping himself out of the clutches of both party's establishments is the trick.
I've no doubt the the Dems will use their majority to torment Trump and his administration.. likely to their own disadvantage in 2020. The American Electorate does not view Trump with the villainy ascribed to him by the Dem Establishment. He has just lost the focus of his proposal.
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Trump lost the house because every President loses ground in the house in the mid-terms.
You should see this as a huge victory. White supremacy has been restored to its place as the norm in American society.
Only if they can convince 2/3's of the House and 2/3s of the Senate. I just don't see that happening.
The Alt-Left Salt is flowing here like its 2016. I guess the fascists really wanted the Senate.
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TRUMP’S REPUBLICANS BEAT HISTORICAL AVERAGE FOR MIDTERM ELECTIONS
“Over the past 28 midterm elections since 1906, the president’s party lost about 30 House seats and 4 Senate seats on average.”
https://www.infowars.com/trumps-republicans-beat-historical-average-for-midterm-elections/
Oh look...he beat Obummer's first midterm...
Has it ever occurred to you that the problem you have with blurry vision is just that you have your lower intestine pulled over your head too tight?
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CNNs Van Jones on the 2018 Midterms...
"This is heart breaking though. It's heart breaking... It's not a Blue Wave"
"This is heart breaking though. It's heart breaking... It's not a Blue Wave"