![]() ![]() And even after they lost, what did candidates like Kari Lake do? They claimed the election was stolen. Among those who voted for moderate Republicans, there were many who refused to cast their votes for any extremist Republicans on that same ballot. ![]() The midterm elections showed us that the Americn political center isn’t on board with MAGA. Instead they are busy expelling representatives who dare to call them out on their cowardly inaction.Īnd in states they control, they are targeting the trans community horrifically, as if these people are somehow the root of America’s problems and now a convenient political scapegoat. In states like Tennessee, they won’t even hold votes on any sensible gun safety laws like universal background checks and red flag laws. They are passing draconian anti-abortion laws, from Florida to Idaho to North Dakota. The MAGA base, and many in Congress, are still flocking to Trump, even as he faces further indictments in Georgia and from two federal grand juries. Instead, Republicans seem to be doubling down. It would also cast aside the ideas that voters have resoundingly and repeatedly rejected, from election denialism, to abortion extremism, to the near-worship of firearms.Īnd that’s because, in my humble view, it is a party locked in a death spiral. It would abandon the twice-impeached, multiply-indicted ex-president who led them three times to electoral ruin. Voters punished the party for putting up Trump-backed candidates in key states, including Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia and my own home-away-from-home state of Arizona.Īny sane, rational party would look at this record and decide to change course. One thing is clear to anyone looking at this objectively and dispassionately: Americans in the center-the independents and moderates who decide elections-have had enough of the extremists in the GOP. Since the shocking election result of 2016, we’ve watched the GOP underperform repeatedly in elections, losing the House in 2018, the White House and the Senate in 2020, and then failing to retake the Senate in 2022 in a “red wave” that never materialized. Photos by Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Amir Levy/Getty Images. Donald Trump Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert Ron DeSantis. ![]()
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