AFTER THE MIDTERMS, WHAT’S NEXT – HISTORY TELLS US
If you’ve listened to me for the last year, you know that I’ve been telling you a midterm loss was likely.
The President’s party — regardless of party — has lost the midterms all but twice in the last 96 years.
And contrary to the current handwringing, that loss has often been as bad or worse as the one this week.
I also told you how we could win. And we could have: we proved that in my home state of Florida, where we held every statewide office and the exact same number of U.S. House seats as before the election. The same can be said for the state in which I grew up, Arkansas. Defeat was likely, but plainly unnecessary.
That teaches us something about 2028. The “we’ve lost forever!” nonsense is repeated every two years, and every two years the out-party wins, often by enormous margins, at which point we are promised that the other party is doomed for all time. And the cycle continues.
There is a pietistic variation of that theme: “God has withdrawn His blessing from us,” or even “America is under God’s judgment,” thoughts always accompanied by a shrug of the shoulders and an abdication of responsibility, which fits pretty well since a shrug of the shoulders and an abdication of responsibility came before those events too, and in fact, brought them to pass.
There’s a lot of fight in Democrats. There’s a lot of quit in Republicans, and none more so than Christians. If they actually do find themselves under judgment at some point, that will be why.
This doesn’t mean Republicans will win in 2028. It does mean that they can, and that they can recoup their losses.
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It feels as if the march of history is accelerating now. The number of meaningful current events around the globe continues to grow.
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