...expect serious policymaking legislation to go on hiatus for two years.
With Election Day four days away (and millions of Americans already having voted), the polling and pundit classes seem to consider the matter settled that Republicans will recapture the House, with the only remaining question being how large their majority will be. As I write this, Real Clear Politics sees the possible size of that majority as ranging from 15 to 48 seats, with its average being 31 seats.
Kevin McCarthy's move into the Speaker's office buries the Biden legislative agenda. Or does it? Over at The Dispatch, Haley Byrd Wilt looks at the prospects for bipartisanship. She identifies a few areas of possible cross-party agreement:
Both parties want to take a tougher stance with China, and more Republicans have been advocating industrial policies in recent years to bring critical sectors to the United States. eyThe GOP is also likely to emphasize ramping up defenses for Taiwan, Wisconsin GOP Rep. Mike Gallagher wrote last week. Other opportunities include medical research and technology privacy protections.
In addition, Wilt notes that both parties will be under pressure to address items like raising the debt ceiling, authorizing defense spending and funding the budget. These are considered must-get-done bills, but they don't excite the political bases, and passing them is expected to be accompanied by much unproductive and unedifying drama and conflict. But if the past is any guide, they will eventually get done.
Wilt then takes a look at the likely dynamics within this new Republican majority. It doesn't bode well for the common good:
The conference dynamics could be unwieldy. More far-right members are set to join the GOP’s ranks after the election, and they’re the politicians most likely to oppose any form of cooperation with the White House on must-pass bills.
Josh Huder, a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Government Affairs Institute, told The Dispatch he expects the House Republican conference to be “totally rankled in a lot of factional disputes” that will make it difficult for the chamber to be productive.
The House GOP will have some serious policy makers, he said, but they are “arguably going to be in the minority within their own party.”
“It’s just a question of what can they get this emergent faction of really radical, sort of largely policy-absent faction to agree to,” Huder said. “They’re radical, but they’re not conservative. And that makes it very difficult for the conservative lawmakers of the party to sort of organize or orchestrate policy goals that you can get a large chunk of your caucus to agree to.”
Even aid for Ukraine in its struggle against Russia invasion could be come more complicated with Republicans in control of the House. Wilt quotes Marjorie Taylor Greene, the wacky-but-influential Georgia Republican, as vowing, "not another penny will go to Ukraine".
I expect all this reads as bad news to most NewGathering readers. Speaking as the most conservative poster here: I see it as bad news, too. The Republican Party loves to win elections - in fact, seems willing to break many norms to win and to hold on to power - but has little interest in governing. It is easy to point to Donald Trump, but arguably, he is not the root cause; he is simply the first politician to suss out and capitalize on the fact that Republican voters are more interested in "owning the libs" these days than in working to make the United States a better country.
I believe there is a way out of this but neither party nor the American people at large have the flexibility of thought or character to find it and execute it.
ReplyDeleteI think the US of A has to come out of the closet and admit we are an empire, and one succumbing to senescence.
I did some white water canoeing and rafting in my life. Sometimes there's a point in the Class 4 rapids when your efforts to keep the craft upright are hopeless and you have to decide to bail out and let the currents take you.
I guess I'll keep trying for a change of course for this country but I think the system itself is just breaking down.
How does a Christian act in times like these? That is the question that keeps surfacing in my thoughts.
"How does a Christian act in times like these?"
DeleteSuch a good question!
My first thought is, the answer isn't along the lines of, "Reinstate praying in public schools".
Jack often invokes Robert Greenleaf's writings on servant leadership. Having leaders (legislators, administrators, judges et al) who think of their role as serving the people, rather than using the people as means to greater power and wealth, would be an important step in the right direction. Or so it seems to me.
In addition to politicians serving the people, wouldn't it be good for Christian voters to look at what politicians have done to serve the common good in tangible and cost effective ways? I don't think you have to look much further than the corporal acts of mercy for guidance there. There can be disagreements and debates about costs and priorities, of course, but the well being of our citizens at home and maintaining our interests abroad should be at the center of political discourse.
DeleteMaking the party in power seem like crooked, senile incompetents too busy running their combination pizzeria-Satan worship centers is what the GOP thinks will win elections. Democrats will continue to focus on demonizing the Supreme Court, jabbering on about "the soul of the nation," and mentioning Herschel Walker as often as possible.
ReplyDeleteMeantime, infrastructure continues to crumble, we are losing our manufacturing edge, nut jobs are venting by taking out a few schools or worship places, we are making no headway on climate disaster, and our kids are still dumb as rocks.
I am so damn sick of politicians parading around like self-righteous prophets, touting ideology rather than rational analysis and suggested solutions.
How about you fix some pot holes, folks, and shore up some food deserts?
I ran across this article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dan-crenshaw-election-deniers_n_6364cc13e4b06f38ded30136
ReplyDeleteIt quotes Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R Texas) as saying what election deniers actually say behind closed doors as a slew of reality-defying candidates run as Republicans in next week’s 2022 midterms:
"But even just the others, they’re like, ‘Yeah, we know that, but we just, you know, people just need their last hurrah. Like, they just need to feel like we fought one last time. Trust me, it’ll be fine.’ And I was like, ‘No, it won’t. That’s not what people believe and that’s not what you’re telling them. And maybe you’re smart enough to know that but like …’ So we have a lot of people in the political world that are just willing to say things they know aren’t true, they know aren’t true. It’s a huge manipulation."
It is depressing and dismaying. But also totally not surprising.
We have an election for governor, also one for the Representative for our district. I'm not thrilled about the choices, and I'm 99.9% sure what the results are going to be. But at least these people aren't election deniers. Which is something. My philosophy is, that it is what it is.
As far as how I as a Christian am going to act, I don't know, pretty much the way I've been acting all along. We can't live in a state of permanent freak out.
As far as outcomes of the election, it isn't over until it's over. We may be surprised.
What we all suspect. Glad that Crenshaw is opening the windows on this.
DeleteWhen I read the news, I come close to true despair. So now I don’t read much of it. I skim the headlines only. I’m now focused on accepting the reality that our country, the one we knew, and our fellow citizens, even family and lifelong friends, the ones we thought we knew, but really didn’t, are gone. No, not because of trump, his success was a symptom of the convergence of several harmful trends in our country. His success revealed the extent of the cancer, now stage 4. The true blame now is on his loyalists - pretty much the entire GOP, and pretty much all conservative christians, evangelical AND RC. They allowed the cancer to proceed, untreated.
ReplyDeleteSince it seems to be too late to stop America’s descent to a Hungarian style authoritarian country, very often now openly racist, openly anti-immigrants-of-color, anti-non-“christian”, then it’s time to figure out how to proceed going forward.
How many will continue to fight for the poor? For the refugee? For all non-white Americans? For our desperate neighbors to the south, still seeking refuge at our border? For civil rights? For true religious freedom?
Not the alleged guardians of religious freedom, the SC, that’s already painfully clear. Orban has suppressed free speech also, especially of the press. The SC can also no longer be counted on the defend the civil rights of minorities, nor of women, and especially not the rights of the LGBQ community. As book bans continue to proliferate, what will happen to true freedom of speech? To Freedom of the press? Orban has apparently been pretty successful at shutting off dissent, and limiting press criticism as well. That’s apparently because the citizens of Hungary prefer the Orban vision of their country. And tens of millions of Americans embrace MAGA. They won’t be upset if the MAGA oarty creates a society here that emulates Hungary. If thats what Americans want, then there is little we can do now to change it.
My husband and I are old, white, christian, and reasonably well off. We aren’t political activists, and we have lived pretty much under the radar as far as politics go. What will happen to those who still fight? Who protest in print, or in the streets? What will happen to them after 2024?
We will probably be dead before the worst happens, but it seems inevitable. So I am trying to plan for my children, and especially for my mixed race grandchildren. We will be updating the trust/will soon, and will discuss this with the lawyer. They may need financial help to be able to emigrate at some point. Part of that is usually being able to demonstrate adequate financial assets, so we need to figure out the best way to handle that should the need arise. (Assuming that we will have assets to pass on to them). Unless things are SO terrible they can ask for asylum! And hope they get it.
Anne, I pretty much agree with you. The party's over. It's good you are looking out for your children's future without delusion. I feel so bad for the young people.
DeleteI don't think the system can be saved. One can only do things for individuals about you. Perhaps, at some point, I'll be called to throw my old body into the cogs of some terrible machine. It can happen here.
Stanley, i still have a feeble hope that if our country can survive another trump administration, the young people might be able to turn things around. But that assumes there is at least a shadow of a real democracy still remaining by 2028. For now, I continue to make monthly donations to the groups that help others - who help the asylum seekers at the border, who help refugees, who help the poor, who work to support civil rights. I vote, and we occasionally send a donation to a political campaign. This year, it’s not just local. At the request of a lifetime friend of my husband - a high level, longtime GOP supporter and activist until 2016, we sent a donation to Tim Ryan in Ohio. But I think it’s too late to save the country. I hope that I am wrong. But…
DeleteAs Chris Hedges says, "You don't fight fascists because you're going to win. You fight fascists because they're fascists." Anne, I too intend to do what I can.
DeleteTypos above, should read "about crazy juice in the world supply of Red Bull"
ReplyDeleteFrom Jim's post: "The House GOP will have some serious policy makers, he said, but they are 'arguably going to be in the minority within their own party.'"
ReplyDeleteI recall that Spkr John Boehner had a hard time trying to deal with the Tea Party. It wasn't long after Boehner retired in frustration ("zip a dee doo dah") that he vented his frustration with the grandstanders in the party, particularly Sen Ted Cruz (aka "Satan incarnate").
The Tea Partiers stonewalled everything and then made hay off the fact that nothing was gettingdone.
Boebert, Taylor Green, Goetz, Jordan, et al may be weaving a similar crown of thorns for Kevin McCarthy. What's different now is that many of the rational voices in the GOP have stepped down or lost primaries.
Floating someone like Cheney as candidates to challenge Trump (or his designee) in 2024 doesn't strike me as a very good strategy. They're all "quitters" or "losers."
I agree. The rich can put their kids in a rubber dinghy full of money and aim them ... where? The Western political landscape is littered with neofascists. And, God, let's not even contemplate what's going on with Israel.
ReplyDeleteGiven the inaccuracy of polls and predictions today, I am going to wait until all the ballots are counted.
ReplyDeleteThen I am going to wait until all the challenges and charges of rigged elections are over. That might take a long time.
And also wait until all the pundits have fought about what happened in the election.
Then it will be time to face whatever might be going on in the world. I am more concerned about new virus variants and new conflicts around the world than I am about the politicians.
Supposedly some researchers at Boston University have paired an Omicron variant with the original virus and come up with a new virus that kills 80% of mice that have been bred for some human characteristics.
Some context: The manufactured variant at BU appears to be part of a study to understand how the virus works. It is not a virus that is currently circulating, nor is it a super covid strain that is more virulent than other strains that have circulated.
DeleteGiven that elected officials make decisions to fund pandemic research and develop public health policy, it's probably smart to think about that this election cycle.
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/10/18/boston-university-covid-researchers-combine-omicron-spike-protein-with-original-virus-test-strain-on-mice/
Hope everyone has had their recommended shots.
And anybody in the Great Lakes, batten down the hatches! Wind has knocked down some branches here and power keeps going off, which may put an end to my monopolizing this space. The Lord works in mysterious ways ...
Brother-in-law of a friend of a friend just died from covid complications. Unvaccinated.
DeleteI'm sorry to hear about the one who died.
DeleteMy family members are recovering. My son went back to work for a half day yesterday. He says he still gets tired quickly. My daughter-in-law was sicker and opted for the Paxlovid, and said it helped her a lot. But leaves a metallic taste in her mouth. She said it was worth it though. My brother out in Colorado also had it this week, and his case was independent of my other family members. They were 500 miles apart. He only had symptoms for a couple days. All of these people were vaccinated, breakthroughs are common, but vaccination does seem to prevent serious illness. Six family members were exposed to the sick ones, but didn't get it.
I’m glad your family members are recovering Katherine. It’s always sad when someone dies of Covid who might not have if they had been vaccinated. A neighbor a few houses up the street that we didn’t know well died of Covid last year - unvaxxed. His wife, the new widow, was vaccinated but apparently couldn’t talk her husband into it. We know a couple of others, like my sister in law’s brother, but they died before the vaccine was available. We got the bivalent vaccine a few days ago. No problems beyond a bit of mild soreness at the injection site that I didn’t notice until turning on my side to go to sleep. Not sore enough to keep me awake. Gone the next night. My husband has never had a reaction at all to any of the shots, not even a transitory sore arm. I hope it works as we will spend hours in planes and airports the last two weeks of November.
DeleteI plan on getting the bivalent vaccine. My doctor has advised waiting until January because I had a previous booster at the end of July. Hope that will be soon enough for protection.
DeleteWe got our previous booster in April, two weeks before flying. They are supposed to last about 6 months, but become less effective as time passes. Protection grows for two weeks or so after the shot before leveling off and then declining according to what I have read. So we timed both recent boosters to be a couple of weeks before getting on crowded airplanes. My husband got Covid in the first wave of omicron last Christmas after flying on a very crowded airplane about 2 1/2 months after the second booster for alpha and delta. Not as effective against omicron. We’re now on something like the 11th sub variant of omicron but it should still work. It’s still omicron.
DeleteJean, we may not be as rich as many, but I hope that we have enough left to help our kids should it be needed. We used to sail a lot on the Chesapeake Bay. And we never left our harbor without a well equipped rubber dinghy. Emergencies do happen, and its best to plan ahead and be prepared. Cliches become that because they are very often common sense truth.
ReplyDeleteIt’s a big world and there will always be a few outposts of freedom and sanity. I pray that an inheritance won’t be needed. However, I’m not counting on a magical turnaround in our country at this point, so trying to make a plan while we can. We don’t have a lily- white family as you do. As all of you here do. Some of our family members have plenty of personal experience with racism in this country, more than most whites imagine. More than I imagined when I still lived in a white family bubble. . Of course I knew minorities, worked with minorities, socialized with minorities. I believed that I had good relationships with minorities and that racism was pretty much history. Now I know from my family members that few African Americans or other minorities trust whites enough to ever really share their personal experience with racism. They keep up a protective barrier, letting their white colleagues or neighbors or social acquaintances think that racism is behind us. After all, they are educated professionals too, work colleagues, and sometimes neighbors. But they have learned to be careful not to trust whites too easily.
The difference between raising African American children, especially boys, here v Europe, is that few African American males, from 12 on, are ever victims of violence in Europe, much less killed by the police. Racial minorities in Western Europe may experience racist comments, or poor service in a small store, but they aren’t afraid of violence in the same way they are here. Trump made it unofficially acceptable here to be racist. Racism is officially acceptable in Hungary. But the spread of the right wing parties in Europe is very worrying. There may be no place to be safe in the US or in Europe in coming years. But there may be safe places elsewhere. They don’t need to stay here just to be martyrs.
Katherine- But my feeling is that it is a collective contagious mental condition. I liked Jim's comment a couple of threads ago out crazy juice in the world supply o Red Bull. The fever will break sooner or later, hopefully we will still have a country left.
ReplyDeleteYes, the US has been exporting all kinds of crazy juice - very harmful crazy juice - right wing politics, making racism acceptable, and recently there is even more gun violence happening in Europe. I don’t think the European countries will gut their social safety net policies however. It’s about control, power, and about tribal purity. The tribal purity appeals to many in Europe, just as it does here. Trump saw that and exploited it. Now it’s a key feature of the MAGA/GOP.
However we have had a racially and culturally diverse country for far longer than European countries have. We were diverse even when most immigrants came from Europe. The Catholic immigrants were definitely not welcomed with open arms by the WASP majority who arrived first. Diversity will probably be impossible to undo here, but civil rights for minorities can be seriously weakened. The signs are already apparent.
Yes, Hungary is a very small country, with no history of diversity. But the GOP leadership has been quite anxious to learn from Orban. They say so quite openly. They go to Hungary to meet with the leaders of Orbans government and with right wing leaders from other countries, who join them in Budapest in order to learn what they consider “best practices” - in order to adapt them to create a similar authoritarian governments in their countries. They say that it is important to establish ties with Europeans who share the same goals - to get rid of liberal, progressive policies. They can advise one another, share ideas, and tactics. They are quite open about it all.
And, according to recent studies, many Americans are not concerned about having an authoritarian government, or losing our form of democracy. They just want to be able to keep filling the tanks of their pickups. As summarized in the Bloomberg newsletter
President Joe Biden gave a speech last night warning American democracy hangs in the balance in the upcoming midterm elections. Did you watch it? Probably not. I mean, the World Series was on! Also, “Survivor.” And “Chicago Med.” And, uh, “Stargirl.” Anyway, as Frank Wilkinson points out, polls show Americans say they worry about democracy, but not enough to, like, do anything about it. …Concern for democracy may not swing many votes the Dems’ way, and Ramesh Ponnuru suggests abortion rights won’t, either. That’s because Americans are mainly angry about the state of the economy. Weirdly, the Republicans who could soon take over Congress as a result haven’t said much at all about how they’ll fix the economy, writes Allison Schrager. But hey, the economy is all vibes anyway, and so is democracy. Did you catch that game
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/23/michael-moore-democratic-party-win-midterm-interview
ReplyDeleteMichael Moore has the Democrats doing well in the midterms. Maybe he doesn't know what he's talking about, but he correctly predicted Trump's victory in 2016. Also predicted where and how it was going to happen.
Moore seems to think that the demise of Roe is going to get women voters worked up.
DeleteIt's more nuanced than that, I think. Most women I know are not single issue voters. Overturning Roe is largely seen as one symptom of Trumpism, a blow for militant Christians and the blurring of religious and secular lines.
I know many women who will decline to vote either way on Prop 3 (restore Roe in Michigan), but who do plan to vote straight Democratic in legislative races.
Yeah, I don't think most women, or most people, think Roe or its demise is the all- important issue. To a degree the economic issues are bigger, but to me it's about defense of democracy.
DeleteI voted Democrat in my mail-in but without enthusiasm. This Ukraine war without negotiations is disheartening. Politicians seem insouciant about the possibility of nuclear war. Even the progressive Democrats wimped out on their letter. Hopefully, secret communications as during the Cuban Missile Crisis are in progress. But I don't have much confidence in our leadership.
DeleteI guess one could say that I'm concerned about abortion, of the human race.
Yes, exactly.
DeleteThere are Repubs here who are demanding public hand counts of all votes immediately after the polls close. They want to organize count watching groups, and they want to "protect the count" with legally armed citizenry in designated areas, which usually means urban/non white precincts.
They don't seem to understand that election rules are already in place to ensure election security. The state legislatures, not dipsh*t miltias, have the authority to regulate polling places, and rule changes have to be instituted by their elected reps.
It makes me laugh when I hear these same people saying that we need more civics in schools. No kidding, folks, and let's start with some remedial lessons for you.
My comment above was to Katherine.
DeleteTo Stanley's point: Nobody I know, including me, is geeked up about the Democratic Party. But it's the only viable alternative to the know-nothing purveyors of chaos that the GOP has not only failed to control, but depends on for re-election.
The last gasp of decency in the GOP was John McCain's telling an idiot supporter that, no ma'am, Barack Obama was not an evil Muslim terrorist but a decent family man with whom he disagreed.
Luckily here in NE PA there doesn't seem to be any of that armed harassment of voters threat. Not sure how I'd react to it. I dropped my ballot off at the library without a problem.
DeleteI'll be an election judge again tomorrow. Will be very curious to see whether Republicans around here follow through with their promise/threat to have poll watchers descend on all the precincts. There is a process for accommodating poll watchers, and if they follow the rules, we'll accommodate them. If not, we'll be calling the county sheriffs very quickly.
DeleteIt's puzzling to me what the free-lance poll watchers hope to see, or how they'd even know if someone was trying to cheat the system.
DeleteWas talking to my sister yesterday, apparently there's conspiracy theories going around in the old home town. There's a movie which supposedly exposes what "they" don't want you to know before the election. The local theater owners backed out of showing it, because they felt it was sketchy. But never fear, come to the theater entrance anyway, and there will be people who will direct you to the venue where it will be shown. But it's a secret, because if it were known ahead of time it might get cancelled. Adding the thrill of forbidden information which not everyone knows!
DeleteThe Michigan Civil Rights Commission will have monitors in urban/black cities.
DeleteWe'll have the usual gang of idiots at our local polls. They'll stand around talking loud about how the voting machine shreds your paper ballot so that it can be replaced by fake ones, how they saw So and So from out of town going in to vote, and how walking around downtown with a deer rifle is not intimidating anybody.
They aren't there to investigate anything, just to push their line of conspiracies and keep people stirred up.
I must admit I've never been comfortable with electronic voting machines. At least a mechanical device can be visually inspected and its workings are explicit. Even simpler is the paper ballot. I like voting by mail or drop off as opposed to pressing buttons on an electric "black box".
DeleteWe have paper ballots that get fed into a tabulating gizmo.
DeleteGood luck to Jim working the polls today and kudos to him and all election workers!
I voted early. We could use a touch screen and print out the ballot after for scanning or a paper ballot, also scanned. It is highly unlikely that any local voting will be disrupted by the GOP goon squads. There are four registered Democrats for every registered Republican. The Not Affiliated are 50% more numerous than Republicans, and tend to vote blue.
DeleteThere are just a handful of Libertarians, Greens, etc.
I voted just a little before noon, at our usual polling place, the Eagles Club. No problems and no waiting. There were some new faces among the poll workers; over half of them were young people, which is an encouraging sign.
DeleteLuckily I voted previously by mail in ballot. Turned out I have a sprained ankle from a dumb slip-and-fall I did Sunday (wet walkway + wrong shoes). Can't imagine doing the logistics required to vote at a polling station.
DeleteNo goon squad at the polls despite it being a pleasant 55 and sunny. Our new lady chief of police was chatting up folks around the precinct and generally being visible and friendly. Possibly that kept the eejits away.
DeleteI did spoil my ballot, voting for too many school board candidates, one reason I don't vote absentee in the event I mess up. I was very embarrassed, but at least could rectify no muss no fuss.
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DeleteI always have to grin at the sign in our polling place, saying that the bar is closed during polling hours. Just in case you planned on having a drink after voting.
DeleteI'm not following the coverage of the election. I'll wait until tomorrow and it may be undecided even then. But, if it turns out the way I think it will, I have a bottle of gin to soothe my small-d democratic feelings. Just kidding. Well, maybe a gin-and-tonic or two.
DeleteCommentary on the USA’s rapid slide away from democracy as seen by those in other countries in the NYT. I don’t know how many free articles are allowed before the firewall goes up. My digital subscription is about $100/year. The first year is usually less. I was surprised by how much I like the NYT. I thought it was too liberal and only subscribed because of trump’s attacks on it and the free press in general. No question that it has a very liberal slant, but it has a few token conservatives. And they at least do have fact checkers and publish corrections when needed. Brooks and Stephens are ok, but I seldom read Douthat. The “ paper” has a lot of interesting articles, covering a wide range of subjects.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/world/us-international-democracy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
DeleteSome excerpts
“Conversations across continents reveal alarm over the United States’ direction, as it slides away from ideals it once pressed other nations to adopt…… For most of the world, the U.S. midterms are little more than a blip — but they are another data point on what some see as a trend line of trouble. Especially in countries that have found ways to strengthen their democratic processes, interviews with scholars, officials and voters revealed alarm that the United States seemed to be doing the opposite and sliding away from its core ideals.
Several critics of America’s direction cited the Jan. 6 riots, a violent rejection of democracy’s insistence on the peaceful transfer of power. Others expressed concern about states’ erecting barriers to voting after the record turnout that resulted from widespread early and absentee voting during the pandemic. A few said they worried that the Supreme Court was falling prey to party politics, like judiciaries in nations struggling to establish independent courts.
“The United States did not get into the position where it is now overnight,” said Helmut K. Anheier, a sociology professor at the Hertie School in Berlin and a principal investigator for the Berggruen Governance Index, a study of 134 countries in which America sits below Poland in quality of life as defined by access to public services such as health care and education. “It took a while to get there, and it will take a while to get out.”….
The world’s healthiest democracies also have stricter limits on campaign donations — in Canada, political donations by corporations and unions are banned, as are political action campaigns to promote parties or candidates. …
Jennifer McCoy, a political scientist at Georgia State University who co-wrote a recent report on how polarized countries have depolarized in the past, said partisan divisions have kept the United States stuck in place, but so has myopia: Americans rarely look abroad for ideas.
“We have such a myth around our Constitution and American exceptionalism,” she said. “First it makes people very complacent, and second, it takes leaders a very long time to recognize the risk we’re facing. It means it’s very hard to adapt.”
As I predicted above;
ReplyDeleteGiven the inaccuracy of polls and predictions today, I am going to wait until all the ballots are counted.
Then I am going to wait until all the challenges and charges of rigged elections are over. That might take a long time.
If the Republicans do not officially win both the House and Senate, they will claim that they won these as well as the Presidency.