While former President Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination in 2024, was indicted on 34 counts of falsifying industry documents, Americans have made clear, once again, that they are not buying what Trump or the Republican Party sells.
Cable news channels shouted Trump in court, Trump in a car and Trump at Mar-a-Lago complaining about his legal troubles. Court seat, giving the liberals a court that had leaned toward conservatives for 15 years.
In Chicago, Brandon Johnson, the more progressive of the city’s two Democratic mayoral candidates, won. One notable difference in this race was that Johnson’s opponent, Paul Vallas, focused much of his crusade on a misleading Republican-related public policy message. . It didn’t work.
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On Monday, thousands of academics marched to the Tennessee State Capitol to ask for more guns following last week’s mass shooting at a Nashville elementary school.
In last year’s midterm elections, Republicans performed particularly poorly, as the electorate rejected the party’s attacks on abortion, voting and LGBTQ rights, as well as Trump’s continued attacks.
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If you start aligning those developments, it’s not hard to spot a trend.
After Protasiewicz’s landslide victory in Wisconsin, Ben Wikler, chairman of the state’s Democratic Party, tweeted: “This is an earthquake. And do you know why earthquakes? Tectonic shifts.
Away from Trump’s circus, it looks like an update is happening.
What Trump’s impeachment means: Trump’s entire presidency was “unprecedented. “His accusation is simply shameful.
Republican tactics of fear are inevitable: socialism is coming!The circle of relatives is under attack!Don’t work. And when the face of his party becomes the first former president ever indicted, the old line of the “party of law and order” crumbles a bit.
Republican lawmakers spent the day shouting about the injustice of the tariffs against Trump. And Trump spent Tuesday night at his Florida hotel delivering an almost tragically plaintive, lie-filled speech in which he lamented the fraudulent investigations he faces, dragging down those who pay attention to him. in their own non-public abyss of grievance and despair.
In theory, it is a crusade speech, but there is nothing positive, there is no hope for a better future. Only selfishness and anger, which seem to be the only two things on the Republican Party menu in those days.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is seen as the only user who could pose a risk to Trump in the Republican primary, even if the governor hasn’t officially entered the race. What will you apply for?
Well, this week he signed an invoice allowing Floridians to carry concealed weapons without a license. And on Monday, the state Senate approved a DeSantis-backed bill to ban abortions after six weeks, before many women know they’re pregnant.
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Supporters continue to wrap Trump in a warm embrace. But the electorate rejected him in the middle of the 2018 term, the 2020 presidential election and, indeed, half of the 2022 term. Do Republican officials think the fourth time is charm?and a televised broadcast of complaints?
Wisconsin’s electorate elected Protasiewicz and gave the liberals the state Supreme Court because they care about issues like abortion rights, fair elections and Republican manipulation.
Chicagoans rejected the subsidized candidate through the police union and sided with the candidate who promised “more holistic public safety. “
The other young people who filled the halls of the Tennessee House of Representatives were not looser gun laws. They are a generation fed up with mass shootings and politicians firing gun manufacturers. They are existing, long-term voters whose numbers will continue to grow.
And in the five states that passed abortion-related ballots in the 2022 midterm elections, voters of all stripes voted in favor of abortion rights.
Trump got all the attention on Tuesday. Without a doubt a historic moment.
But during the evening, he wearily read conspiratorial nonsense on a teleprompter and a babble of doom to me that seemed to annoy even the most stalwart enthusiasts present.
It’s the same thing. This is what today’s Republican Party looks like: either march on the spot or withdraw, ignoring the option that, across the country, everything has changed.
It ignores the fact that more and more people prefer to move on.
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