The reactions to last Tuesday’s elections can be broadly divided into two camps. “Why is everyone losing their minds over leftists winning predictable races in blue states?” and “The GOP had better wake up or we’re toast in 2026!”
If it had just been predictable races won by predictable people, the first reaction would be understandable. But when the GOP loses its supermajority in the Mississippi Senate (a state President Trump won last year by 22 points) and when both GOP incumbents in Georgia’s statewide Public Service Commissioners races are ousted by Democrats for the first time in decades, some deep soul searching needs to take place — and stat.
Probably the best take came from Scott McCay’s reaction to the elections, in which he said the left has defrosted the cold civil war we’ve been in since at least 2015 (and probably since the 2000 presidential election) and that the right is still acting like it’s 1996. It’s not just that Senate Democrats took the country hostage for 42 days or promised to eliminate the filibuster as soon as they get their hands back on power. It’s not just that Eric Swalwell has publicly promised that Democrats will investigate every group that worked with Trump, or that James Carville fantasized about goose walking Trump voters and allies in orange jumpsuits through D.C., while “patriots” spit on them.
It’s that someone as vile, immoral, and death-mongering as Jay Jones was able to win his bid to be Virginia’s next attorney general. When only 46 percent of polled Virginia voters say Jones’ murderous fantasy texts are “disqualifying,” the problem is more than DEI racism and groomers disguised as teachers (bad as those are). It is that a good percentage — probably a majority — of Democrat voters now share Jones and Carville’s dreams.
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