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2012. CNN interviews the mother of a girl who was repeatedly raped by a grooming gang in Britain.

She went to the police and they told her don’t worry, when your daughter turns 16, they won’t want her anymore.

In other news, Russell Brand goes to prison.

Anthony Scaramucci just posted that Republicans need to get rid of Trump before he destroys the party even further.

I'm seeing this all over and it's pretty funny actually.

Reminder, many establishment Republicans and political pundits said those exact same things in 2016, when they guaranteed that Trump would lose to Hillary Clinton.

They said those same things in 2023 when they were guaranteeing that Trump would lose in 2024.

They personally hate Trump because he made them completely irrelevant. Many literally had to become Democrats just to get some airtime on a podcast.

Thousands of these little narcissistic phonies who have never done anything for the Republican Party and who have been relegated to an hour a week on MSDNC, so want to feel important again.

Below are the facts. Does it look like Trump "destroyed" the Republican Party?

There have been three outlier elections (2018, 2020, 2026), during which Democrats have managed to produce between 15-25 million extra votes as compared to recent elections. Republicans have no interest in figuring out how this happens. They are just selfishly jockeying for relevancy.

Trump grew Republican support massively and consistently over the past ten years. People are going to be in for a rude awakening when he is gone. If the thinking is "Democrats won't vote as much if Trump is gone," good luck with that one. That's a real winning strategy.

2008: McCain - 60 million votes
2012: Romney - 61 million votes
2016: Trump - 63 million votes
2020: Trump - 74 million votes
2024: Trump - 77 million votes

Obama's re-election: Down 3.5 million votes from 2008.

Obama's first midterm in 2010: Democrat vote down 4 million compared to 2006.

Obama's second midterm in 2014: Democrat vote down 3 million compared to 2010. Democrat vote down a total of 7 million compared to before Obama.

Trump's first re-election: Up 11 million votes from 2016.

Trump's second re-election: Up 13 million votes from 2016.

Trump's first midterm in 2018: Republican vote up 10.5 million compared to 2014.

2022 midterm: Republican vote up 3.8 million from 2018.

Trump's second midterm: To be determined. Will be up from 2022.

Consistently gaining support during every election is what they now are calling "destroying" the party.

In 2018 the economy was doing extremely well. Gas was cheap, inflation was low, wages were up and unemployment was near an all-time low.

Black unemployment hit the lowest level ever recorded.

For the first time in eleven years, the poverty rate was significantly lower than before the Great Recession.

And yet...

Democrats got 25 million more votes during the 2018 midterms than during the 2014 midterms.

25 million more Democrat votes, even though Republicans had the highest midterm turnout in history.

The results were a blue wave, with Democrats turning the same number of House seats as they just did in 2026. Democrats even flipped more Governorships in 2018 than in 2026. Republicans were able to win back some red state Senate seats in 2018, but those midterms were considered a blue wave.

Perhaps there is more at play than the price of gas.

I think a lot of people are completely wrong about what caused this midterm "blue tsunami."

I also believe that much of the hyperbolic, misguided analysis is coming from people who have hated Trump for a long time and who have been eagerly waiting with bated breath to declare the end of Trump and MAGA.

"It was obviously the Iran War. Trump didn't put America first. He betrayed America. It was gas prices. Only a fool would think otherwise."

Ok. Fair enough.

Allow me to present a hypothetical scenario. Let's pretend that Trump #2 never started the war with Iran.

Imagine if the price of gas was not around $4.00 a gallon but instead, let's say something low, assume $2.70 a gallon.

Pretend inflation was at a near perfect 2% for the year and GDP was cruising along at a 15 year high.

Assume wages were up and unemployment was at about a 50 year low.

No war. Great economy. That would have won Republicans the midterms right?

That would have prevented Democrats from flipping 41 House seats and 5 Governorships?

Those hypotheticals I listed above are what was happening in 2018 before the midterms. And yet, Democrats flipped 41 House seats and 7 Governorships during the midterms.

The Senate races turned out differently because Democrats were defending races all around the country in 2018. Republicans took back a couple red states. But the 2018 midterms were considered a massive blue wave for Democrats. No Iran War, economy booming, and still, that's how the midterms turned out.

Here's a fun fact. There were approximately 35.5 million Democrat votes during the 2014 midterms. There were approximately 61 million Democrat votes during the 2018 midterms.

25 million more Democrat votes during a booming economy. Do the current criticisms of Trump's second term explain that?

Trump went from 63 million votes in 2016, to 74 million in 2020, to 77 million in 2024. During each of his three midterms (2018, 2022, 2026), the Republican vote has increased substantially. But those increases do not compete with the additional 20 million Democrat vote bumps that happened in 2018, 2020, and 2026.

The question for Republicans becomes why do these gigantic Democrat vote bumps happen. How are they doing it? Is it because people hate Trump? They hate his policies? If those things were true, he would not continually gain support for himself and for the Republican Party.

Without even touching voter fraud, I believe that there is a clear, multi-faceted strategy that Democrats employed in 2018, 2020, and 2026 to drive insane amounts of people to polls, regardless of economic conditions. It's not difficult to identify, but Republicans don't talk about it and certainly don't have an answer for it. And Democrats can do it at will when needed.

Yes Trump won in 2024, but he was the only Republican that would have won and his win was helped by some unprecedented circumstances. Democrats were caught off guard. They did not make that mistake this time around.

Trump's second term has been far from perfect. Lots of mistakes and unforced errors. And once again, many terrible personnel choices by Trump.

That being said, I also believe that things could have been close to perfect right now and Republicans would have still gotten crushed during the midterms. Look at 2018.

Perception is everything. Republicans are not prepared or even willing to step on to the field with Democrats in this regard.

The Democrats are a cohesive, well oiled, united machine working in perfect harmony with the MSM. Together they can create and push any narrative they want to push. Republicans not only have no answer to this, they instead spend their time fighting each other.

Democrats don't argue about policy. They create mass hysteria and fear. It's all emotion. It's their entire platform. Most Americans don't like their policies. But they are playing a game in which policy and ideas and reality do not factor into the equation. And there are very clear strategies that they use to create this mass hysteria and to drive voter turnout.

Republicans are just going to keep helplessly watching this happen over and over again. They learned nothing from Trump's first term. The exact same lies, smears and hoaxes were used again, except this time around they replaced Russia with Epstein. Same game plan to the tee. For example, they created the same immigration hysteria that they did in 2018. Everything happened again.

Democrats were doing No Kings/Fight Fascism protests back in 2018 over immigration. People don't remember this but they were. I've posted videos about it. Bernie proudly declaring "No Kings." The immigration hysteria is especially effective at getting women riled up.

People don't remember Kamala Harris taking a ladder to climb a fence to break into an ICE facility in 2018 or Rachel Maddow fake crying on TV, AOC crying at the fence, or Oprah holding her book club at the border. Protesters literally glueing themselves to the ground in protest (over nothing). A Time Magazine cover with Trump menacingly towering of a crying migrant child. The audio recording of a baby crying that the MSM played on repeat for weeks before the midterms. The British PM Theresa May publicly condemning "kids in cages" (the same cages that Obama built and used).

Republicans just sat idly on their hands and watched it happen all again, making no attempt at rebuttal. Democrats are on TV every hour of every day. Republicans politicians can't even bring themselves to post on social media in defense of enforcing the law. No matter who the next Republican President is, if he or she attempts to enforce immigration laws, Democrats will turn it into a midterm win. Guaranteed. And that's just one weapon in their playbook.

Republicans don't even know how to deal with the sabotage coming from their own side, let alone unite in a perception war with the Democrat Party.

Before the 2022 midterms inflation had reached a 40 year high, gas was above $5.00 a gallon, more people died from Covid in 2021 than in 2020, the botched Afghanistan withdrawal happened, the border was wide open and Biden was struggling to walk and talk. Still, Democrats only lost a few House seats and even picked up a Senate seat.

With all that happening, why didn't 20 million more Republicans vote during the 2022 midterms than in 2018? If economy matters so much, why was there no red wave? Have an election "expert" answer that one.

People who are playing Monday morning quarterback and criticizing everything Trump has done this time around are so not prepared for or even aware of the war that is being waged. They most likely care. They are ok with losing and many just want to declare all things Trump dead and buried. Maybe next election they will decide to fight back against the incredible machine Democrats. Good luck with that.

The Republicans who are so joyfully celebrating the end of "Trumpism" are in for a rude awakening when he's gone. Trump has increased his support and Republican support in every Presidential and midterm election he has been involved in.

I'm going to lay out in another post some detailed thoughts on the strategies Democrats have used to turn out massive amounts of votes and what Republicans might consider doing in response. It's nothing genius but there is a clear, detailed method to the Democrat madness and nobody seems to be talking about it or even care about it.

Granted, I'm just a guy on X who doesn't know much, but it doesn't hurt to post my thoughts so I will.

2019. Fun times.