Presently, everyone has a take on the election results. I’ll give mine because oddly enough, I have yet to see some parts of it reflected elsewhere. The communist took NYC and a liberal woman, each, took Virginia and New Jersey. As is my habit here, I’m omitting a lot of detail, assuming my reader already knows the background, the names, the results, and probably several other takes on the election. Given that no high-profile Republicans won the few contests of national importance, the dominant take is that Republicans were, as a minimum, either chastened, inept, or asleep as usual. On the other end of the scale, the socialist among us are dancing with glee around the Samhain fires offering their firstborn to Satan in gratitude while uttering new curses upon Trump. I have a different take.
The reality on the ground is that three blue districts went to blue candidates, period. I already covered Mamdani here. I never bothered with the others. What conservatives might have hoped for was to have three MAGA flips, yet no one remotely predicted this. All three races went from earlier slam dunk losing to late hour contested. There was a slim chance. Would we be discussing any of this if there had not been a glimmer of hope late in October? Frankly, no. Everyone would have moved on to pre-managing the losses and working on 2026. Our hangover is substantially all perception. Having said that, the New York Republican party badly mismanaged their slate long before this election cycle. Maybe the national org could have slapped some heads there. New Jersey is like New York and has its own self-destruction instinct. I confess I don’t understand electoral Virginia except that its Democrat population concentrations, especially near DC, generally determine their fate. The concluding governorship of Youngkin was the real anomaly in Virginia, not this election. Again, perception.
Could Republicans have done ‘more’? Always. Would it have made a difference? Not in NYC. Could Donald Trump have done more? Hardly. Investing more in bad races always equals an ever more consequential harder loss. As it is now, these are all marginal losses for Donald Trump, I suspect he knows this and has already moved on.
Elections are funny. Whoever gets the most votes wins. It doesn’t matter that it’s the smallest margin of the real population that matters and that the greatest margin that neglects to vote chooses to be affected the most for their apathy. The matter of Mamdani is an excellent example. Fourteen % of the city’s adults voted for him. Of those, the majority have been residents of the city for less than 5 years. It’s safe to say that a fair percentage of those are part of recent immigration waves, legal and illegal. When Jerry and Karen are held up at gunpoint by an illegal immigrant and there are no police to respond next year, will they think back on the day they swore off going to the polls? How about David when he’s assaulted for being a Jew as he leaves Columbia U resident hall, or how about Jenny, a woke middle-age white flaming progressive when she’s cornered by a dozen hajib wearing women calling her a whore and demanding that she wear a hajib because six blocks of her community were just declared under Sharia law? The point here is that Republican critics are handwringing over the election results, but maybe they aren’t the ones that should be wringing the hardest; after all, at the end of the day, it’s all about the livelihood and security of those that have to live under bad governance and not about the careers of a few people that head to Washington. Seriously, to what extent was this fixable given the structural problems now built into New York City by uncontrolled immigration and by ranked choice voting? Prior to the election, even some Conservatives suggested that Mamdani should win so that the city could eat a full helping of their own folly, and as I previously suggested, get cured of the infection that is the Democrats. I didn’t endorse that idea before but it’s the reality now, like it or not. Last but not least in the ‘deserves’ category here is Curtis Sliwa. His do-gooder red cap will finally be relevant again now that he’ll have all of Gotham to continually clean up as it descends into hell.
As for the Democrats, they’re going to learn all the wrong lessons from the election takeaways. Go left young they/them. Obama really is a brilliant statesman. People in Pennsylvania, Alabama and Nevada will love radical woke progressive candidates and nepo-jihadist on the ballot.
Everything was not the cause of the election results. After reading a dozen articles, you begin to think that nothing was done right, and everything was the cause. Most of the problems were built into the races from the start, but most problematic, is when an electorate, through a lifetime of carefully cultivated ignorance and spite, desires and choses the leadership that will come home to haunt them the most; hardship, hunger, no freedoms, no control, no personal safety, and the destruction of their household integrity.
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