Bad News; Good News

Democrats’ Strategy of Division Appears to Have Worked—but There’s Still Good News

The Republicans look like they’re taking the House. Certainly not by the margin we had hoped for, but still enough to yank the gavel away from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s gnarled fingers. This is huge. As Marc Thiessen, Bush's speech writer writes: …[Voters] appear to have given Republicans a majority in the House of Representatives—if a narrow one, from what’s clear so far—which means that President Biden’s power to spend trillions of dollars with Democratic-only budget reconciliation bills is revoked.

In other words, although the GOP won’t have world-changing power, they are at least in a position to thwart some of the Mad Spender’s behemoth, inflation-causing bills. A year ago, that would have seemed like a pipe dream, but here we are. And who knows? The Senate is still up for grabs as of this writing—perhaps it will still turn red. (As of late last night, the Senate remains in the control of Democrats)

We didn’t get all of what we wanted, but we’re in a better place than we were on Monday. Despite our disappointment, we should still take solace in that. The Democrats did effectively manage to demonize half the country and scare the heck out of the other half, and we can’t let that happen again. I don’t think denying the outcomes of elections is the way to win—fighting to get the systems fixed is the better approach.

And while Trump is exasperating right now, the one thing I always liked about him is that he didn’t take things lying down. If you criticize him, he’ll come back at you twice as hard. Empowering other Republicans to do that instead of being milquetoast doormats has netted us a new crop of fighters.

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