It was easy to wake up this morning feeling as if voters took an axe to decency and liberty on election night. New Yorkers handed Gotham to the Joker, the man with a smile painted on his face married to ideologies of destruction and chaos. New Jersey and Virginia gave governorships to, as The Daily Signal’s Tony Kinnett described, two “Karens”—two shrill liberals who dressed up as moderates eager to force-feed males into girls’ locker rooms and playing fields. And finally, Californians voted to strip Republican voters of nearly all congressional representation.
And most sickening of all, Democrats demonstrated, with the election of the despicable Jay Jones in Virginia, their full embrace of political violence. The night’s biggest losers were those who held to the mistaken belief—even after watching all the left-wing celebration over the execution of Charlie Kirk—that a majority of Democrats don’t wish them harm.
Tell me, how do you reach across the aisle with people who want to see you dead and your children dead in your spouse’s arms? How do you break bread with people who can know full well Jones’ deadly desires and go, “I’m fine with that, I’ll vote for him for attorney general”?
That makes for a tough pill for us to digest. But all is not lost.
Blue People in Blue States Are Going to Do Blue Things
First, as bad as the night was for Republicans, the reality is that blue people in blue states simply did blue things. Sure, Virginians are tossing way the gains made under Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin like the Washington Commanders tossed away their football season. But thanks to the massive growth of Northern Virginia—a population grown fat on federal government spending—the Old Dominion is basically a blue enclave. As a Daily Signal colleague remarked, Virginia might as well recede itself back to Washington, D.C.
Blue is going to do what it’s going to do and did so last night. That’s all. Red states and Republicans now understand, if they didn’t already, that they must put on their big boy pants and, to borrow a phrase, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”
Democrats Are Setting Themselves Up for a Colossal 2028 Fail
Who were the big winners last night? Well, Karl Marx and the “Globalize the Intifada” crowd, you might grumble. But in election terms, it was California Gov. Gavin Newsom and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has seen her Democrat Socialists of America become the straw that stirs the Democratic Party’s drink. (That drink being Jim Jones’ Kool-Aid, as New Yorkers will soon find out.)
There is no way Newsom, with his ego and coiffed hair, is not seeing yesterday’s victory of Proposition 50—the measure he pushed to redistrict the state to reduce California’s GOP representation in Congress by five seats—as a sign from God Himself he’s destined for the Oval Office.
And there is no way AOC doesn’t see the vote in New York for Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani as a mandate from Marx himself that the time has come for an avowed socialist … in the form of a former bartender, perhaps … to head the ticket and damn the Democratic National Committee if it gets in the way again.
Regardless of who crowds the Democrat field for president in 2028, it’s going to come down to Newsom and AOC or a similar AOC-backed Mamdani-type radical. But let’s stick with AOC for simplicity. Standing next to Newsom on a debate stage, she is going to look small—not just physically, but intellectually. He’s going to bake her like a California pizza.
And after suffering the humiliations of Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris failing in their runs for the presidency, the misogynistic party that wants men in girls sports is going to side with the slick, rich, straight, white frat boy Newsom.
While AOC will be carrying with her into the primary all the baggage of the disaster Mamdani will bring New York, and that will help the California governor, Newsom will be burdened with every ounce of the Mamdani disaster in the general election, along with his record of destruction of the once-Golden State.
Most critically, the Democrat nominee for president in 2028 will carry the anti-American spirit of the Democratic Party and Democratic Socialists just as the entire country is chanting “USA! USA! USA!” thanks to its hosting of the Olympics. (That’s one reason Bill Clinton breezed to re-election in 1996.)
The hubris of Tuesday night’s elections erases the lessons the Democrats should have learned from 2024 and guarantees a good election night in 2028. Call JD Vance “Mr. 48.”
Politics Is Downstream From Culture … and the Culture Is Coming Clean
Finally, take great heart in this fact: We are winning the culture war, and the politics will eventually reflect that as sure as Christmas follows Thanksgiving. Look at the countless high school and college students who are embracing the vision and passion of Charlie Kirk. Look at the religious revival among the young. Look at the collapse of the woke; of diversity, equity, and inclusion; of cancel culture; even of the transgenderism fad. Look at how the legacy news media, rigged social media platforms, and leftist entertainment are crumbling.
Take the news from just the past couple days:
TMZ reporting that new CBS News boss Bari Weiss is aiming to poach Fox News of some of its conservative talent.
The box office failure of Trump-hater Bruce Springsteen’s movie “Deliver Me from Nowhere” and Hollywood as a whole having its worst October in 27 years.
The birth of Elon Musk’s Grokipedia, a powerful new competitor to Wikipedia, but without the woke, left-wing bias.
And the death of Teen Vogue. The teen magazine was at the cutting edge of indoctrinating the young and vulnerable into LGBTQ ideology and into the cult of abortion. Teen Vogue is no more. Traditional concepts of womanhood are rapidly becoming in vogue once again instead.
A Bump Along the Highway
So, while it’s tempting to play the blues after Tuesday, there is reason to be whistling a happy tune. There may have been pain on election night, but joy comes in the morning.
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