Winston Churchill once observed that there’s nothing quite like the feeling of being shot at and missed. The Republicans are enjoying that glorious sensation as we speak. Thanks to redistricting decisions in various courts as well as some surprising examples of GOP manhood in their wake, it looks like November is a jump ball. The midterms were supposed to be a rendezvous with disaster, and historically, the tides are still against us. But Democrats have just had the miserable experience of discovering that fate is fickle. Recent events have made it so that Republicans have a fighting chance, and our joy and relief that we’re not necessarily destined for doom is amplified by our delight in hearing Democrats squeal in agony as all their dreams die.
And that’s only the beginning of their pain. The 2026 midterms were going to be a small blip of hope for them before the Democrat success trend line dropped like Swalwell’s pants in the presence of a hard-five Chinese spy. Continuing population shifts will favor the Republicans. For example, migration from traditionally blue cities and states to more conservative red states will increase Republican representation in the House, as red states gain seats due to their population growth and Dems lose them as their future voter base gets deported. This shift will also result in more Electoral College votes for Republicans, strengthening their position in the coming presidential elections. The future is so bright, the GOP’s gotta wear shades.
But, as long as the Democrats keep wearing those p-hats and the occasional Nazi tattoo, they’re going to keep losing. The South is nearly solid red. Republican legislatures are eliminating many of the racist, reserved Democrat districts (though soft Republicans might spare some districts for now, when the GOP pols get Indianaed next primary season, they’ll get harder). These weren’t black districts. They were Democrat districts. But it’s nice to see Democrats pretend to be interested in their black voter base after years of snubbing them in favor of illegal aliens, Muslims, and perverts, who all rank higher on the Leftist Pyramid ‘O Oppression.
If the Democrats were smart and more cunning than ideologically committed, they could turn this misfortune into a way to make a comeback. It’s an opportunity, if they can take it.
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What’s that opportunity? Well, when you have districts that are essentially reserved for Democrats where there’s no chance of Republicans ever getting elected, there’s no need to moderate. There’s no need to talk to anyone who’s not communist or communist-adjacent, and they haven’t been. For years, there’s been absolutely no genuine outreach by Democrats to normal Americans. That weird sour apple doll-faced CIA agent Abigail Spanberger tried to fake it, but her mask – put it back on, please! – came off the instant she swore in. She ran as a moderate and governed as a Marxist.
And you see how that has gone.
The Democrats are going to face a choice, particularly in the South, where they soon won’t be able to count on sure-fire wins. They’re now going to have to compete for the votes of normal people if they want any seats at all, but how do you compete for the votes of normal people when you’re pushing bespoke Bolshevik baloney? Carving up kids to conform to the delusions of their Münchhausen mommies? Importing most of the Third World and paying them to be here? Allowing criminals to run rampant? More taxes for freeloading bums, as well as public employee unions, though I repeat myself.
Normal people don’t want that.
But what if there was a Democrat who could say “No” to the most extreme nonsense? There was such a Democrat. You’ve got to go back almost 35 years, but there he was. Bill Clinton. Do you remember how he stood by Americans who wanted to work hard and play by the rules? How he wanted abortion to be safe, legal, and rare? How he thought criminals should go to jail and people shouldn’t be on welfare forever? That’s all a Dem anathema now, but it would be hugely popular if they brought it back, and it would allow cover for the other liberal things they want. Bill Clinton was no conservative, but don’t confuse him with his clueless wife. He understood that for a Democrat to succeed, he had to make the Democrat Party safe for normal people to raise their families and walk the streets.
It’s strange that the most despised Democrat today is not the guy with a Nazi tattoo or the avowed socialist or the fake Indian. It’s the Democrat from a swing state who says America should defeat its enemies, that crime is bad, and that maybe it’s a bad idea to have wide-open borders. They despise Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), but you know who doesn’t despise John Fetterman? The people of Pennsylvania who elected him.
Now, imagine some southern Democrats who are willing to say things like “America is the best country on earth,” "It’s bad to trash our ally Israel to please the Jew-hating freaks in our party, "Criminals should be in jail," and "Unionized teachers need to perform adequately before they get any more money." That guy is going to get a hearing. People are going to listen to him. And when he gets elected, and he might, and he actually governs that way, he’s going to be able to slip in a lot of liberal things that we Republicans can’t stand.
Let’s not fool ourselves. Republicans aren’t winning elections because they’re personally popular. Most Americans despise all politicians. Republicans are winning elections because, in large part, Democrats embrace insane freaky weirdness that repels normal people. But people may well accept a lot of the things Democrats want that are terrible – like single-payer healthcare, as awful as that is – if it’s pushed by someone they trust not to let their children be molested or their savings pillaged. Fortunately, that’s going to be hard for Democrats to do. That’s because their ideology isn’t just a political viewpoint. It’s their substitute for religion. Their bizarre belief system in things like the angry weather gods and structural racism and all the rest are what fill up that space that normal people fill with Faith, Family, and The Flag. You can’t be normal in the Democrat Party. You can’t say, “No, maybe it’s a bad idea to kill an eight-month fetus because mommy feels like it.” You can’t say, “Most derelicts and bums are drug-addicted losers, criminals, or insane people who either need to be in treatment or jail, and they can’t live on our streets and pollute them with needles and hobo droppings.” You can’t say, “No woman has ever had a penis.” You can’t say absolutely true things that everybody knows are true because other Democrats won’t tolerate it, and that makes you untrustworthy to normal people, as it should. But what if they did?
What if you had a Democrat who stood up and refused to genuflect at the altar of Left-Wing weirdness?
Well, then we would have a problem as Republicans. But for now, we don’t have to worry. With the Democrats contorting themselves like yogis to explain why the guy with a Nazi tattoo is cool but the dude who made the OK sign is Hitler, they’re doing our work for us. It may not be that the Republicans are about to enter a winning streak; it may be that the Democrats are about to enter a losing streak. And, fortunately for us, it’s the Democrats who will keep that streak going.
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