Unclear what they can do
Let’s hope this is spoiling Trump’s fun adventure in Chy-nah: voters said a big Nope.
Republicans awoke Wednesday to a series of aftershocks following Democratic victories across Virginia and other local elections that far exceeded either side’s expectations.
That performance, particularly in key suburban battlegrounds across the nation, validates a strategy that Democrats on Capitol Hill had embraced earlier this year: trying to win back the majority by riding a wave of liberal resentment toward President Trump while also promising rational governance to centrist swing voters.
The resounding victory by Gov.-elect Ralph Northam (D) tells only part of the story of Tuesday’s “old-fashioned thumping,” as former Virginia congressman Tom Davis called it. Beneath the top-of-the-ticket races, in many fundamental places, the ground shifted against Republicans in ways that have properly struck fear in the hearts of GOP consultants.
What, just because Republicans are standing by and watching their president destroy everything?
The Republicans were dejected seeing the results — left to question how much of a downballot effect Trump’s unpopular presidency will have on them next year, and unclear what they can do to appeal to voters.
Wellllll, they could impeach Trump.
They could, and it would probably be worth the cost. But it’s obvious the very thought abhors them. Polar opposite to their opponents.
White men still broke handily for Gillespie, and white women were split pretty evenly. It’s not surprising, but it is depressing.
And that’s why feminism has such a problem. There are way too many women who are just fine with the status quo, in fact they like it, and they work against us. Most other groups have at least a critical mass of the oppressed on board with their aims, and even if not actively working for the goals of the group, may not be working against them, either.
I was thinking along just those lines, albeit incredulously and nauseously, reading about Weinstein’s Black Cube intimidation squad and the women there working to keep other women unsafe from a sexual predator.
I’m not interested in sympathizing with such women, any more than with Weinstein, what with them being effectively accomplices after the fact – along with their male colleagues, of course. But I do wonder what they are thinking. Nothing keeps them and their sisters, daughters, or friends from being subject to the same reduction to living property for groping, or as targets of silencing tactics. Are they that barren of empathy or imagination that this is just a fine way to make a paycheck? What am I missing?
Jeff Engel:
Seems to me like it’s a pretty straightforward instance of the Just world hypothesis leading to victim blaming.
Rrr: I’m one of those who fully believes the plan IS to impeach Trump, but only after they’ve secured at least a few key legislative victories that they know will be unpopular in the aftermath. They want to pin the blame on Trump for tax cuts and killing Obamacare. So they’re dragging their heels, stalling while they try to pass something abhorrent.
Of course, the longer they delay, the more they get forced to make statements expressing support for President Soggy Cheeto, and the bigger the price will be with the Deplorable Base. The delays may have already proved fatal to the ‘use him and lose him’ scenario.