Irish 2.0 said:
Don't give me the GA cheating crap when Kemp won by 300k votes. It's disingenuous and beneath you rocky.
Walker was a **** candidate
Was Walker a ****ty candidate? Yes. Were there some other ****ty candidates? Yup. But let's not pretend Warnock is some great campaigner. Trump is a problem. He's also significantly better for the rank and file than McConnell. If you don't think that plenty of people in DC would rather have this EXACT outcome whereby they can extract maximum money from donors and rent seekers in the House while giving up the Senate and having no responsibility for really checking Biden and the Democrats and breaking Trump, well you're not paying attention.
It is very clear from where and when McConnell placed and removed money that this is his preferred outcome. Same can be said for very large portions of the establishment (consultants, politicians, staffers, lobbyists, etc.). Yeah you can investigate Hunter and throw some red meat to your base and do all the same things they've been doing like ignoring the border, building their own nest eggs and continuing with the status quo. If you don't think the VAST majority of the people in DC "representing us" aren't more culturally aligned with the left again tell me you've never lived in DC without telling me you've never lived in DC.
It's a swamp for a reason and the lifestyle and self-importance that that town will bring to people is a GD Siren song. Not everyone, no matter how much they want to think of themselves as such, is Odysseus. Having been there and knowing a lot of people who were there I've seen it happen. To good people. It's a shame but it's true.
The reason I'd vote for a Texit isn't because of some sense of national destiny or glory, it's because DC is now trapped in a death spiral and it will take a Herculean effort to clean out those stables. I would love to believe Desantis is capable of that, but I don't know that'd he'd be able to bring enough support to get it done. And he's only there for so long. The establishment around DC will outlast him. Someone around 2040 is going to get left holding the bag that is our entitlement system. I don't think we will survive that crisis without a real sense of national identity and we're losing that rapidly. I can tell you I feel far less connected to the America of today than I did 10 or 20 years ago. The America that we've been in the past, yes. The America today, no I'm sorry I just don't have that same connection. A stranger in a strange land almost. I'm not alone in that I suspect.