The primary elections on Tuesday went pretty much as expected – the white guy in Texas that the Democrat establishment favored beat the black lady, whom rich white liberals were convinced other non-rich white liberals wouldn’t vote for. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t lessons to be learned or warnings to heed from it. So, let’s take a look at some of them, shall we?
First, white Democrats in Texas really don’t like black women. Actually, black candidates at all. They don’t support them statewide, running for the ambiguously gay “evangelical” white guy “pastor” who spends an uncomfortably awkward amount of time talking about “trans kids” and abortion. I’ve been to a lot of Catholic churches and heard a lot of sermons from “progressive” priests and I’ve never heard any of them try to make the case that God makes lots of mistakes when it comes to creating individual human beings the way James Talarico does.
In fairness, Talarico, the Democrat nominee for Senate in Texas as of Tuesday night, isn’t a Catholic. However, I’m unfamiliar with any sect of Christianity that is predicated on God being a bit of a screw-up, confused about which part goes where when assembling humans. Nor do I know any faith that argues God created abortion to correct the mistakes of pregnancy He never intended. But then I haven’t really spent a lot of time researching weird cults like progressive Christianity.
That doesn’t mean that Talarico is gay, nor does his not being married – and, honestly, I couldn’t care less as I’m opposed to what his politics are, regardless of his sexuality. His politics and policy proposals, not to mention the fact that he is pot-committed to genital mutilation of children and open borders, should be enough to ensure he goes down, no matter how enthusiastically Rachel Maddow extols his virtues.
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But Republicans need to recognize that the enthusiasm gap does exist, at least in a primary. I don’t know who the GOP nominee will be – I don’t live in Texas, so my vote doesn’t really matter, but I would go with Senator John Cornyn because he has less personal baggage than Ken Paxton, and control of the Seante is a numbers game – but the fact that so many more people were willing to show up to vote for either Talarico or racist Jasmine Crockett than any Republican candidate is an issue.
No need to panic, eight months is a lifetime in politics, but it also can go by in a blip. While headcount Tuesday is only a snapshot of that moment in time, Republicans can’t blow off the idea that Democrats are excited. Talarico is a horribly flawed candidate out of step with Texas, but both Democrats Senators from Georgia are, too, and they’ve both won. Who you nominate and how they run matters, as does their personal baggage.
Same story in North Carolina, where a former Democrat Governor is the Senate nominee there against a former GOP Chairman. More people showed up to vote for Democrats than Republicans. That could be a symptom of a fight between the extreme left and the ultra-extreme left, but motivation doesn’t matter in a numbers game – votes cast out of love and passion count the same as those cast out of indifference.
All is not lost in any of this. The economy is doing great, at least on paper. It always takes longer for people to feel it in their pockets than it does in the data, which should hit over the summer. Despite Democrats’ whining, there is no reason to think Iran won’t work out quite well, as they were always a bit of a paper tiger and we aren’t sending in troops, which takes an insurgency’s effectiveness off the table – which should make leftists look like fools in hindsight. And the removal of illegal aliens is still very popular with the public, the only dislike being the visual of fighting idiot leftists in the streets – as that ends, the positive sentiments will reestablish themselves.
But for any or all of this to matter, Republicans have to wake up and do the work that needs to be done, starting with stopping punching themselves in the nose. Second, do real opposition research on their opponents and make it thorough – then use it. How many times have we heard about scandalous, stupid or fraudulent things in the background of some Democrats AFTER an election loss? What’s the point there?
Republicans know what needs to be done; the only question is whether they have the will to do it. History shows that, sadly, it is an open question.
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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