Kevin Drum at Mother Jones has 15 Reasons for Democrats to be happy. Tuesday’s results continue to unfold as final ballot counts are slowly emerging and projected results get replaced by actual results. Lots of other things have followed from that. Let’s start with Drum’s #1:
- Democrats won a huge victory in the House. Even with all the gerrymandering and voter suppression that Republicans put in place, they won by a popular margin of 7-8 percent. When all the counting is done, they will probably have won about 35 new seats and Nancy Pelosi will be Speaker of the House. This ends Trump’s legislative agenda for good.
Drum has more good news on how Republicans are not in a good place with the other 14 points. As he notes:
That’s more than a dozen bits of truly bad news for Republican, and it’s only going to get worse as they stare down the long barrel toward 2020, where the Senate map is massively in favor of Democrats; the economy is likely to be on a downturn; and Donald Trump will probably have long-since worn out his welcome with his one-trick pony. In other words, they’re getting more and more desperate, knowing that a historic shellacking is probably headed their way in two years.
And this desperation is showing. Over the next two years Republicans can nominate some more conservative judges to the lower courts, but that’s about it. With Democrats controlling the House; the filibuster controlling the Senate; and a man-child controlling the White House, they’re in for a very rough two years.
Read the whole thing. Keep it in mind as the media soaks up and repeats the GOP narrative that the Blue Wave fell short. Keep it in mind as Trump and the Republicans pull out all the stops in their efforts to hang onto power. Keep it in mind in the face of all the spin and the lies that will be coming from the right.
It’s not over, it will never be over — but it looks a lot better than it has for the last two years. Never give up, never surrender. Forward momentum!