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Grand Theft Democracy ‘26: We’re Not in Kansas Anymore By Rondal Goldfarb Well another election has come and gone and little has changed in Washington. As predicted, Republicans retain control of the Senate, Democrats still control the House, and everything will be business as usual despite marginally smaller margins in both houses. Both parties still offer only big government prescriptions to things like energy and housing when it is the government itself that is the underlying sickness. VoxLibertatis—Yesterday at 4:32 PM Everything going to plan is what I expect out of this election night. A lot of tight races that resolve to the mean for the most part by the end. At the end of the night it will still be a Republican Senate, a Democratic House and life will continue on as it has to the next most important election of our lifetime. Our predictions for the Senate were infallible, as usual, with places like Florida, Louisiana, Kentucky, Montana and Texas staying safely red after the Democrats did everything they could imagine to kneecap their own. Apologies to Matthew McConaughey for his career but no matter how old this gets, Matthew McConaughey jokes stay the same age. The DNC sending their flogged gimps out to campaign for Congressional seats after humiliating primary defeats as former Senator Tester did for Ryan Zinke and Governor Hochul for New York congressional seats that were inevitably lost was some next level cuckolding though. The Republican’s loss in Maine was to be expected after Strom Thurmond’s great grandfather, Senator John Hunt (R-ME), announced his retirement. And while Governor Sununu (R-NH) has his own flaws, Senator Shaheen and every other sycophant that supported seven pandemic bills, including the Pre-emptive Pandemonium and Cybersecurity Hysteria Act should be pilloried by voters. The exception to the rule, of course, is the midwest. Despite the DNC shafting Iowa out of its half-century tradition of picking the next President, Iowans somehow warmed to Democrats again. Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Earl Duplantis (R-LA) woke up this morning, turned to his lapdog, RNC Chair Tom Worthen (R-SC), and whispered ‘Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.’ Governor Laura Kelly (D-KS) continued to defy historical odds in Kansas to defeat Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) for U.S. Senate in Kansas. Popular Governors rarely are able to translate that success into the Senate against the partisan undercurrents in their states (See also Baker in Mass) but something to note here is that the two-term Governor actually expanded her base, winning over 50% support statewide for the first time in her last three successful statewide elections. Senate Minority Leader Coleman (D-CO) attributed that win to the strength of Kelly as a candidate. VoxLibertatis—Yesterday at 6:21 PM From Whats The Matter With Kansas to more populism equaling a Dem flip. Lots to unpack here. #MoreToCome Left wing hack Thomas Frank published a book two decades ago titled ‘What’s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America’ that is funny for both its humor and its attempt at political analysis. In it he describes how Republicans embracing populism helped realign the midwest solidly into their column for decades. The Republican party has grown increasingly more populist since then, as we have extensively covered, but on economic grounds. Perhaps the popularity of mob rule did not necessarily mean an endorsement of full bore socialism after all? The real story that began in Nebraska last cycle and manifested here is more likely the GOP’s long overdue shift away from social conservative populism. With Roe gone and no more scary gay agenda boogeymen, their racist uncles did not come home. Kansas is the New New Jersey. Meanwhile, the New Jersey effect is still going strong. While Speaker Jeffries kept his majority, it narrowed and New York State was ground zero for Democratic losses. Republicans flipped 3 congressional seats in New York alone, and the New York State Governor’s mansion for the first time since George Pataki (R-NY) left office in 2006. Former NFL player Marcus Grant (R-NY) was the only election where the hail mary on superstar power worked but in reality, the writing was on the wall. Of the four Democratic Governors since Pataki, all of them end in scandal or embarrassing defeat. If this election answers no other questions, at least we know two things to be quantitatively true: It takes two licks to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop, and four straight scandalous Governors to change parties in New York State. Someone in Chicago right now is jealous at how long corrupt politicians can skate by unaffected in New York, I am sure. VoxLibertatis—Yesterday at 6:15 PM Way to go CNN. Biggest call of the night and they screw it up. All in all, not a lot of unexpected results in 2026. What coulda, woulda, shoulda been a Democratic year demurred into politics as usual. And while results in Kansas and New York are certainly noteworthy, I would not call it a realignment just yet. The real story from last night is how the Corporate News Network continues to fail the American people by bungling one of the biggest calls of the night by showing the wrong vote totals. Keep up the fantastic work, kids! While you can continue to rely on the Mainstream Media for the latest in political advertisements, you know where you can continue to turn to for pulitzer-prize winning coverage and to: #ChooseFreedom @micgat@DMH@Abrams@camilodeso

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