Much is made of Democrats doubling down on their preposterous policies rather than ditching them after their 2024 defeat. Yet, Democrats, unlike Republicans, really believe in what they're doing. Now, I don't mean that Democrats really believe the lies they tell, but that they really believe that the lies they tell are the means to their end, which is the transformation of our representative republic into a totalitarian socialist state, with them at the helm ruling over our land and lives with an iron fist. Furthermore, they really believe that their rule over us will prove to be the best thing for us, since they alone know what's best for our country and citizenry. Therefore, Democrats will not only keep telling lies, believing as Adolf Hitler did, that even big lies will eventually be believed if you keep repeating them, but they will also keep pushing their ruinous and ridiculous policies, believing that from our nation's ruins they will rise up to rule over its rumble and reconstruct our demolished representative republic into their long dreamed of socialist Shangri-La.

Unlike Democrats, Republicans, for the most part, don't really believe in anything but political expediency; that is, doing whatever the latest opinion polls say needs to be done to please a wishy-washy electorate and to win the next upcoming election. While Republicans always run for office as committed conservatives, ready and willing to courageously fight to the death for conservative causes, they always end up governing like milquetoast moderates; that is, mousy milksops afraid of doing anything that might catch them in the crosshairs of public opinion, cause voters to frown upon them in the least, and cost them the next upcoming election. Therefore, elected Republicans, in hopes of mollycoddling and pampering as many people as possible on both curbs of the road, always timidly travel the middle road, despite the fact that it leads to nowhere. If you doubt this, just consider the unproductiveness of our current Republican controlled Congress, which has set a new record for the least number of laws past in a single year. 

Much is being made today over yesterday's 9 point victory of Republican Matt Van Epps in a red Tennessee congressional district that Donald Trump won last year by 22 points. According to political pundits, as well as panicked Republicans, Van Epps' mere 9 point victory over Democrats' over-performing Aftyn Behn, who has been dubbed the AOC of the South, is both a foreboding and ominous omen for the GOP heading into next year's midterm elections. In fact, one Republican congressman, who insisted upon anonymity, to conceal his cowardice, has warned "that 2026 is going to be a bitch of an election cycle,” but one that "Republicans can survive" if they "play team" and the Trump Administration "plays smart." Another Republican, Nebraska Congressman Don Bacon, added: “I’m glad we won. But the GOP should not ignore the Virginia, New Jersey and Tennessee elections. We must reach swing voters. America wants some normalcy.” It's easy to read between the lines of these two statements and to see them both as a call for Republicans to exit the Trump warpath and to travel the middle road to next year's midterms, in hopes of conciliating voters and keeping control of Congress. However, if Republicans were just a little smarter, and not as dumb as a bucket of putty, they might stop to think that the reason they do so much better when Trump is on the ballot is because he, unlike them, is a true-blue fighter, who conservative voters are enthusiastic to vote for, rather than a turncoat fraidy cat, who conservative voters have grown increasingly sick and tired of.

GOP FRETS "DANGEROUS" RESULT IN TENNESSEE