The Blue Ripple

Here are my hot takes on the 2018 midterm elections:

1.) As things stand today, the Democrats have won the House by picking up 27 to 35 seats. They were expected to win the House, but this is a pyrrhic victory. They will have like a ten seat majority. Maybe even less than that. So, the Dems have ownership of the House now with Nancy Pelosi as their avatar, but not much in the way of much power. Oh, and Trump isn’t getting impeached.

2.) There was no Blue Wave. Obama lost 6 Senate seats and 63 House seats in the 2010 midterms. Trump won at least 3 Senate seats and lost about 35 House seats. The GOP performed better than expected, but there was no Red Wave either. Insofar as there was a Red Wave, it cancelled out the Blue Wave.

3.) BETO lost, Gillum lost and Stacey Abrams lost although she hasn’t admitted it yet. HAHAHAHAHA!

4.) Steve King, alleged White Nationalist, survived The Blue Ripple. HAHAHAHAHA!

5.) It sucks that Corey Stewart and Kris Kobach lost. The former was expected and was no surprise. The latter was the biggest disappointment of the night. Brownback screwed up the state and Kansas has a history of electing Democrat governors though. Why can’t he get confirmed by the Senate now though?

6.) President Trump unquestionably saved the day for the GOP with his full throated White Nationalist rhetoric at campaign rallies. If it hadn’t been for Trump’s voters sticking with him and giving the GOP a second chance, it would have been a Blue Wave. Joe Manchin was reelected by like 2 points in West Virginia. Old Joe isn’t going to dare to vote against Trump on big issues like immigration now.

7.) Paul Ryan’s unpopular True Cons agenda lost the House majority. I didn’t even vote for Congress. Most people here didn’t either. If the GOP Congress had anything going for it, Democrats wouldn’t have even won the House last night. They didn’t have anything to run on but repealing the Obamacare individual mandate and the tax cuts. It was Paul Ryan’s wildly unpopular Better Way agenda that sunk the party by either pushing issues that voters don’t care about like banking deregulation or healthcare which heavily favored the Democrats. John McCain also cost the GOP a huge victory on Obamacare by voting against repeal at the last minute.

8.) Speaking of cucks, they lost everywhere last night while Trump put Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis over the top. Mitt Romney won in Utah, but he was the exception to the rule.

9.) The Democrats better hope they don’t lose Ruth Bader Ginsberg over the next two years. With fewer cucks in the Senate and a stronger majority, Trump will shuffle his Cabinet and his judicial appointments will sail through now.

10.) Democrat hysteria over Kavanaugh played a huge role in the Category 5 Blue Wave being downgraded to a Category 1 Blue Ripple. So did Trump’s attacks on the caravans and using Antifa to portray Democrats as a violent, unhinged threatening mob. While Trump’s rhetoric didn’t work on us, it did on most people.

11.) The only big ticket agenda item the GOP got done in 2016-2018 was the tax cuts. Maybe the Democrats will be willing to give infrastructure a whirl now to have something to run on in 2020.

12.) Trump labelled Gillum a thief and Stacey Abrams was hit with ruthless attacks over burning the Georgia State Flag and her Black Panthers supported. I’m still amazed the GOP was willing to play the race card and defeat two black Democrats rather than cucking out at the last minute. That’s what Mitt Romney would have done.

Overall, I didn’t think it was a bad night for the GOP. Nothing unexpected happened. It has to be a huge anticlimax though for the Left after two years of having a collective mental breakdown. Americans were supposed to rise up to send a message to Trump and BETO, Gillum and Abrams all lost.

Note: I’m going to be spending less time on social media in the future.