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Catturd and Libs of TikTok and the rest of the clown car are melting down in real time, and Benny Johnson sat with Ron Johnson this week with the copium up to their eyebrows, promising we'll all be living under communism in two years. These people built entire careers on the lie, and they'll be back with a half-step of distance from Trump and a fresh coat of paint, preaching to a smaller and crazier crowd every year.

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And even Florida tells the story. Donalds won by a point or two in a state Trump carried by thirteen. Florida swung almost twelve points toward Democrats, and every one of the 67 counties moved left except Sumter, home of The Villages. Ron DeSantis called the national result a political meteor strike, and his big consolation was that Florida is the last of the ten biggest states still under Republican control. Ron, if that's your victory lap, I'd hate to see your eulogy.

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Best footnote from Michigan: Haley Stevens lost her primary, endorsed Rogers, and has reportedly moved on to endorsing LIV Golf over the PGA.

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Ohio is a fundamental brick in every Republican path to 270. Amy Acton just won the governorship by seven, the first Democrat to do it in twenty years, after Vivek Ramaswamy and his pals dropped more than $100 million on her head, including the horrific closing ad starring her estranged mother. Vivek never wanted to run Ohio. It was a parking spot on the way to a presidential run. He will now never be president of anything, up to and including his local pickleball club.

#10 Not enough N/W flags available for this excellent post.

Thank you, danni!

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Texas was supposed to be Trumpism distilled down to 190 proof. Oil and gas, the rugged-individualist cosplay, a Republican political culture thirty years deep and donor money for days.

Democrats blew the doors off. James Talarico beat Ken Paxton, the first Democrat to win a Senate race in Texas since 1988. Gina Hinojosa beat Greg Abbott, governor for life, by seven. Vikki Goodwin took out Dan Patrick. Nathan Johnson won the AG's office Paxton left behind.

==> Democrats won every statewide executive office on the ballot, right down to the Railroad Commission, which sounds like a museum exhibit and actually runs the oil and gas business in that state. They took the Texas House for the first time in over twenty years. Ted Cruz is now the only statewide Republican official Texas has left. Poor, lonely Ted.

Trump and Paxton are the same creature, corrupt and lazy and cheating, and Texans finally figured that out.

#12 There couldn't be a better choice for judge in this case, Twin.

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This was the biggest week in American politics in a hundred years, and I'm not being cute about it. Bigger than Watergate in '74. Bigger than 1980, 1994, 2006, 2010 or 2018. Democrats took the House, they took the Senate, and they took governor's mansions in states where Republicans had stopped bothering to read their own polls. They took state legislatures, broke state supermajorities, swept local races for school boards and county commissions.

I've been preaching the rule for years. I named a book after it.

Everything Trump Touches Dies. It's as close as politics gets to Newtonian physics, and the only variable is how long it takes. Some victims go fast, some go slow, but the rule collects from every one of them, and on Tuesday it came for MAGA.

When I said, "Everything," I meant Everything.

Don't get smug yet. MAGA isn't in the ground. The media machine is still humming, and the tech bros, the private equity guys, the lobbyists, and the whole incentive structure that pays people to be cruel on camera will lick their wounds for a few months and then show up with the defibrillator paddles for 2028. Elon Musk isn't going to start cutting checks to Jon Ossoff. And Trump still has two years left with every power of the presidency, nuclear codes included, surrounded by people who will never tell him no. He's lost a lot of juice. He hasn't lost the keys.

#8 Flags: Newsworthy AND Funny

#41 Indeed, Donnerboy!

#17 For you, Twinpac ...

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No, this is not a call for MAGA executions. Not even close. But is it really asking so much that there be vigorous Congressional investigations of its misdeeds? That breaches of trust be exposed? That thieves be punished for their thievery? That lawbreakers go to prison? That if impeachment be indicated, it be pursued? That bad people face public shame?

Don't we deserve that? Doesn't the future deserve it? Don't we need that at least as much as we need affordable gas? Isn't it time, 161 years after the guns of Civil War went silent, to finally make it clear that those who break faith with the United States of America will pay a price for doing so?

It is all well and good and even evinces a certain nobility of spirit to swallow your grievances and move on. Except that sometimes, grievances are too grievous for that. DeSantis speaks of the election as a near extinction level event for his party, but the greater truth is that his party has been a near extinction level event for American democracy, has brought us as close to the brink as we have ever been.

And while there is a certain seductive power in the idea of now letting them up easy, while it may seem pragmatic, while it even appeals to our innate sense of decency, history tells us in no uncertain terms that that is a bad idea. The forces of intolerance took the wrong lessons from Lincoln's charity. That's one of the reasons MAGA even exists.

Let's not make the same mistake twice.

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But to frame what we feel as simply a desire for revenge is to render petty and tawdry that which is simply human. Why else do we have courts, if not to satisfy a basic need to see those who have done wrong held accountable - a need, in other words, to see justice done? There is nothing either petty or tawdry about that. As a practical matter, the promise of justice served stands as a deterrent to those who might be tempted to do wrong. As a moral matter, it reinforces the idea that society functions in an orderly and predictable manner, that crime doesn't pay and that at least once in awhile, those who commit misdeeds will be required to answer for them.

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All of which is worth keeping in mind while we debate the way forward from Tuesday's election. As Democrats storm back into power, any exultation is closely chased by the sobering realization of how much it will take to fix the wreckage the MAGA movement leaves behind. By virtually any relevant measure you care to use - health, diplomacy, military readiness, climate change, gas prices, immigration or even the simple maintenance of the White House grounds - the GOP has sown a path of destruction that would do a tornado proud. Anyone who has ever lifted the garage door on a Saturday morning to confront a pile of junk sprawling from floor to ceiling and wall to wall will be familiar with the dilemma Democrats in Congress face when they take office in January: a mess so daunting, you hardly know where to begin.

Given that the donkey party is not itself unduly burdened by popularity, lawmakers would be well advised to begin delivering for the American people sooner rather than later. It is incumbent upon them to remind the electorate what governance looks like and to prove that they can deliver it.

#35 Thank you, Twin.

AU and I have broken bread together, and our hour+ telephone calls on politics are a real joy to me.

But, AU is just as capable of getting "yuks," dissing BOAZ (or subliberal, as he calls himself here these days) as anyone.

And considering all of the verbal diarrhea from BOAZ/subliberal over the years, AU and my LOL (as I outlined in my #28) are just as real as your relationship with AU and his bride.

Thank you again, Twin.

#16 Live in the now.

You're welcome.