Post-Election Analysis
Posted in rantings and ravings on November 19th, 2022 by skeeter
In the smoking debris of the Republican Red Wave the pundits are weighing in on what went wrong. No doubt a few die hard MAGA’s will assume that the election was rigged, probably Venezuelan software in the Dominion voting machines, but most of the autopsies seem to be looking for a villain among their own. Trump. The candidates he backed, ranging from the football hero to the quack TV doctor, just weren’t of a high enough quality, they say.
Ya think? C’mon, folks, take a stroll through the past few years and tell me the GOP candidates were top drawer. Consider just the folks who won, mostly old white angry men, guys like McCarthy who on Jan. 6th said his president was unfit for office — ya think, again?— but was on a plane to Mar-a-Lago 22 days later to kiss the ring. How many of these quality Republicans holding office refused to confirm Biden as the legitimate winner of the 2020 race?
To quote the bard, referring as easily to Donald Trump as Julius Caesar:
‘Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
Men at some time are masters of their fates.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.’
Let’s be honest here. You proved you can fool some of the people all of the time. The real truth is you fooled yourselves. If you’re looking for a scapegoat, try a mirror.
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