A lot pundits are already trying to write off our chances in 2022. They’re talking as if a Republican victory in the midterms is a foregone conclusion.
You know what? I don’t think so. Because if we do what we need to do, we can STRENGTHEN our grip on Congress.
Yes, you read that right.
President Biden is off to a remarkable start. What he is proposing has broad support among the American people. So we need to emphasize these issues. They’re winners.
But in my view, we need to do something just as important:
Make the Republican Party own the 6 January insurrection. Wrap it around the throat of EVERY Republican running in 2022.
The real pros among us are already urging us to do this. And I was encouraged by the way President Biden emphasized it in his recent address to Congress. I think he gets it. Now, we need to ACT.
Tell it like it was: the violence of 6 January was an attack by Trump supporters on the Capitol. It was an attempt to illegally overturn the results of the 2020 election. Many of the rioters planned on murdering the Vice President and prominent members of Congress. And it was egged on not only by Trump and his criminal associates, but by Republican members of Congress (Cruz, Hawley, Greene, Boebert, etc.).
We have the damned receipts.
Make every Republican candidate take a stand on this anti-American riot. Ask them in the bluntest terms about the traitorous attack on the American Republic launched by members of THEIR party.
If they defend it, they alienate moderates and independents.
If they repudiate it they offend the Trumpanzees and suppress their own vote.
Take the gloves off. Don’t let the Republicans “move on” from these events. Don’t let them pull their “both sides” bullshit. These are the people who investigated Benghazi NINE times. Don’t let them get away with burying this atrocity.
Attack them on the insurrection. Do it again and again and again and again. Make them take a stand.
Wrap the insurrection around their throats—and watch them sink beneath the electoral waves.