
<p>No amount of spin or putting-on-the-good-face can change the reality. ; The Democratic Party suffered a broad and deep repudiation by the voters across the nation. ; Yes … these were very limited elections, but the sentiment of the voters in all regions was so clear that there can be no doubt that it represented a national consensus.</p>



<p>Since President Biden has gotten elected – and the left-leaning media has taken up the role of partisan propaganda – the various concocted narratives that played over and over in the east coast establishment press have been given maximum credibility and promotion. ; Essentially, the GOP was described and doomed as a Trumpian cult composed of a small group of hateful people – racists, xenophobes, homophobes, misogynists, insurrectionists, Neanderthals – who need to be cancelled, crushed. ;</p>



<p>In many commentaries, I have suggested that the demonizing of virtually all Republicans – claiming that they (we) are mindless political zombies trapped by our own stupidity and evil was wrong and dishonest. ; It was political smearing with a too broad of a brush. ; There would be a backlash from those so badly mischaracterized, I opined.</p>



<p>Democrats and the left make two serious mistakes in their exaggerated descriptions of millions of great Americans. ; The first is to assume that Trump is the center of their universe. ; And the second is the elitist and arrogant belief that only they – the Democrats and the left – offer what all America needs and wants.</p>



<p>Democrat strategists seem to have forgotten what happened in the 2020 election. Trump may have lost the presidency, but the GOP had impressive wins – gains – across the country. ; In other words, Trump – not Republican and conservative principles – was the target of voter wrath. ;</p>



<p>The one race in which the Democrat candidate, Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic Party and the media made the most strategic effort to make Trump the issue, they lost badly. ; McAuliffe never understood that Trump was not on the ballot. ; ;</p>



<p>They wondered how The GOP winner, Glenn Youngkin, managed to avoid their trap of making him Trumpian. He did not have to even try. ; He merely ran on his own issues. ; While McAuliffe was constantly fighting the past &#8212; Trump of the Democrats invention &#8212; the voters were looking at Youngkin and to the future.</p>



<p>But the Democrats humiliation was much more than one race. ; It was not the proverbial warning “shot across the bow.” ; Voters were targeting the midsection of the left’s political ship.</p>



<p>In Virginia, the GOP took the office of Lt. Governor and defeated the incumbent Attorney General. ; They flipped the House.</p>



<p>And the shockwave directed at the Democrats – and their taking up the cause of the radical left – did not end at the Virginia border. ; The New Jersey race for Governor was anticipated to be a walk-away &#8212; a lopsided Democrat victory. ; Instead, it was a cliff-hanger. ; At this writing, it appears that incumbent Democrat Governor Phil Murphy eked out a slim victory. ; It also appears that the Democrat leader of the N.J. State Senate lost his seat to a truck driver who spent $150 on his campaign. ; ;</p>



<p>In many ways, Murphy’s win was a Pyrrhic Victory. ; The Republican strength is likely to have more meaning for the midterm elections in 2022 than the razor-thin win by Murphy.</p>



<p>Democrats held on to the mayor’s office in Buffalo, New York, even though incumbent Mayor Byron Brown lost the primary to radical socialist India Walton – who was endorsed and supported by Progressive Democrats. ; Brown, a more moderate democrat, mounted a successful write-in campaign to retain the seat. ; One more loss for the Progressives.</p>



<p>In supposedly left-wing Minneapolis, the referendum to shut down the city-managed Police Department to be replaced by a City Council-run Public Safety Department was defeated despite pre-election predictions of an almost certain passage. ; Progressives lose again.</p>



<p>In Seattle, no less, incumbent City Council President Lorena Gonzalez – who called for defunding the police by 50 percent and wanted to eliminate zoning laws that created exclusively single-family home areas– lost by more than 30 percentage points to moderate Bruce Harrell. ; Another Progressive loss.</p>



<p>Police abolitionist, Nicole Thomas-Kennedy was handily defeated by Republican Ann Davison.</p>



<p>In a highly contested City Council race, left-wing activist Nikkita Oliver lost to businesswoman brewery operator Sara Nelson.</p>



<p>To put Seattle in perspective … no Republican has been elected to a city office since 1990. ; No longer.</p>



<p>Republican candidates took the District Attorney’s offices on Long Island New York.</p>



<p>There are similar stories across the country. ; November 2<sup>nd</sup> was a very, very bad night for Democrats – and especially the Progressives. ; And a very good night for the GOP … conservatives and America.</p>



<p>So, there ‘tis.</p>

Democrats get shellacked in off-year election
