I will give the Democrats their due credit for outwitting, outsmarting, and outplaying MAGA in the midterms. They got a major assist from Tyler Robinson, who was radicalized in the right direction and took out one of the Right’s most important leaders, Charlie Kirk.
Trump was the clever one in 2016, outsmarting the most powerful political machine in American history. Then the Democrats fixed all of those holes in their tires in 2020—ballot harvesting to prop up uninspiring candidates, extended mail-in ballots, manipulating the media narrative, and suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop.
That wouldn’t work in 2024. They had shown the American public just how insane they were—with topless transgender influencers bouncing their newly acquired racks at the White House. The craziness also chased down Donald Trump: they tried to throw him in jail, raided Mar-a-Lago, and then tried to throw him off the ballot.
Inflation and gas prices drove voters to pick the guy they hated to fix those problems. But Trump could not and did not fix them. It seems so simple, right? I’m driving across the country now, and gas prices are high everywhere. People notice that every single day. How could Team Trump have missed one of the biggest reasons people voted for him?
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