Thread by @RonColeman

Such pedestrian takes underselling tonight’s results for the GOP.

At no point in US history has every single cultural institution - press, entertainment, academia, unions, public employees, the massive public employee sector, the professions, law enforcement, federal agencies >

> major corporations, Wall Street, non-profits, mainline Protestant denominations, the military - I could go on - been so profoundly and explicitly aligned the way they have been behind the Left in the last five years.

There’s nothing “typical” about this midterm election. >

Moreover, the GOP is bringing legitimately interesting and exciting new blood into its coalitions as candidates, young leaders and voters.

This includes many minority communities dismissed as automatic Democrat sectors for all time to come. No. >

Not that the GOP isn’t stuck with some old and stale figures - but the Democrats have no bench, no future. No one.

And their party message is and will remain rooted in resentment, nihilism, division and contempt for most Americans, their values and and their intelligence. >

And then you’ll tell me, “It was only Florida!”

I mean if you don’t understand or want to accept what Florida means - the Latino vote, the economic growth, the low taxes, the nature of the leadership that transformed its political landscape - I can’t help you. Not at this hour.

But if your response is Pennsylvania… >

Or New York… or Illinois… or California…

it is to laugh.

You’re missing the forest for the trees. The 20th century is way in the rear view mirror.

These states are the living dead of our Republic. They’re bleeding population, representation, talent, youth … >

NY escaped the fate of the rest of the rust belt by retooling as a financial center and safe tourist attraction. The quarter century of that success was mulcted to zero by Democrats in less than a decade. It’s hopeless.

NY is too, and so is PA. Just slower.>

New England’s tiny statelets get to keep their historic two senators each under that formula that offends the posturing pundits of left when it implicates the Dakotas or IA, but other than tech-wealthy MA, these states are largely irrelevant to our future growth and progress. >

Meanwhile we just had our first post -@elonmusk-Twitter-acquisition election and it was UNREAL! No, the banned are not back, but we the living could speak! exchange ideas!

Are these developments all meh to you because Truman and Clinton lost seats during midterms? Really? 😅 >

If so, all I can say to you and your flat takes is this: <>