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The reason Republicans lost was a failure to address affordability. The reason they got BTFO was the war.

Who's left? After ten years of MAGA, there should be at least one person, no?

Feels like Trump took us down to finish the game at the 1-yard line and then he throws a pick-six returned for a touchdown. Then we're like Fuck! Now we need to go stack consecutive 80 yard drives from nothing. We were so close to beating the Left and putting them to sleep forever. We got lazy. We got sloppy. We had totally beaten them, and we allowed them to get back up and regain the momentum.

ELECTION 2028: Vance/Rubio if it's about policy, Vance/Hegseth if it's about war. The answer to the question now is Vance, assuming he's not lawfared into prison by the next election. Neither Rubio nor DeSantis have "it". Neither young men nor women look at either Rubio or DeSantis and get excited. If you've been in this for any length of time you know what I mean. Romney didn't have it. Obama had it. Hillary didn't have it. Trump had it. In Trump they saw what they hoped was a war President. He's not. Clearly. Hegseth has "it", and he's being floated but he doesn't have the political savvy. He's a blunt instrument. Good at what he does, but that's what he does. Outside of that, not so much. Trump, we thought, had the savvy. Again, clearly, we were wrong. Rubio has that savvy it in spades, and to a lesser extent DeSantis does as well. Hegseth doesn't. Finally... Marquee. Even if they have "it" and even if they got the savvy, if they don't have their name up in lights, if nobody knows who they are, it's hard to get them across the finish line. Rubio, Hegseth, and DeSantis all have marquee, but next to nobody else does on the Right that anyone would seriously vote for. Except one man who has all of these things... Vance has it. People naturally just like the guy, especially since he doesn't take himself seriously. That's WHY there has to be a massive campaign against him from Neocons, to make you dislike him. If people didn't naturally like the guy he'd just die on the vine. Vance also has savvy, he's smart as hell, and it's clear he sees that he has a direct pathway to the Presidency if he plays his cards right. Look at it this way... there hasn't been a Vance Gaffe. Not one. Consider that for a moment, how unlikely that is when you're Donald Trump's VP. Finally he's the VP and heir apparent to MAGA (if anyone is) for whatever that brand is worth now. But he's got it. So Vance is the man. The opposition knows this, it's why they campaign so hard against him.

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Truth be told the Republican Party deserved to lose Midterms miserable, they’ve delivered absolutely nothing they promised - Cost of living is horrible - No Voter ID or election reform - Mass deportations are disappointing - Healthcare costs are outrageous - They ran on accountability and didn’t hold a single person accountable - They didn’t codify any of Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts - Inflation hasn’t gone down - We’re in another war - Jeffrey Epstein files weren’t fully released - Still impossible for young people to own a home, mortgage rates didn’t go down - Trump even talked about abolishing the income tax then no follow up Some of these things take time and can’t be fixed overnight of course, but the Republican Congress and Senate didn’t even acknowledge any of these issues. They didn’t even try to pass anything to help Americans Of course you still have to vote Red because the alternative is Democrats who are insane and want to open the border, install communism and side Muslims who want Sharia Law… The point is, the current Republican Party is awful and delivered nothing

The number of Democrat voters only went up 7% from 2024 but the number of GOP voters dropped 30%. The only conclusion that can be taken from this is that conservatives were tired of getting screwed by RINOs and endless war and simply stayed home.

It’s simple mathematics. The furthest right candidate in Texas, Bo French, performed better than Abbott and Paxton. Unheard of that the RRC performs better than the top of the ticket. The moderate and establishment wing of the Republican Party is electorally toxic.

The number of Democrat voters only went up 7% from 2024 but the number of GOP voters dropped 30%. The only conclusion that can be taken from this is that conservatives were tired of getting screwed by RINOs and endless war and simply stayed home.

I’ve been calling for a complete purge of the GOP for months. Now that midterms are over, we can begin Any Republican who places any foreign country’s needs above America’s must go. Any Republican that wants more immigration must go Either we purge the GOP now, or the GOP dies

Or… Mandarin is a difficult language to learn.

Let me explain something to adults over 45. Young white men cannot get jobs. I mean this in the most literal sense. We have valedictorians and nuclear engineers and rocket scientists living in their cars sending out 800 job applications who cannot get a job at McDonalds or the local grocery store. That's how severe the dead zombie economy is for young men. Young white men don't give a shit anymore. They are completely demoralized and exhausted. President Trump is a businessman and we voted for a businessman to fix the economy. Under his leadership we have suffered 6 years of DEI racial discrimination. If President Trump cannot fix the problem, he needs to be honest and explain what's stopping him. But he made a purposeful decision to prioritize Boomers over young men and that's why he lost the midterms.

No, Biden imported 40 million foreigners and we failed to get them out. At the same time, young white men couldn't get jobs and they stayed home. But the big difference was millions of legal migrants entered America under Biden and they're now flipping Texas and other states.