Republicans in disarray

Voters across the US told the OAFPOTUS to pound sand in the clearest electoral rebuke to a major political party since 1984, and the hardest slap to an incumbent president probably since 1868. Democrats won crushing victories in Virginia, New Jersey, California, and even Mississippi. Almost every county in Virginia shifted toward Democrats, and no amount of money could unseat three Democratic Supreme Court justices in Pennsylvania. Plus, Zohran Mamdani beat the OAFPOTUS-endorsed candidates to win the New York City mayoral election, which doubles as a bitch-slap to the establishment pundits who can't wait for him to fail.

The Republicans, in short, got spanked hard.

I don't have time to summarize all the reactions, so I'll just list a few:

• Brian Beutler: 25 thoughts on the 2025 elections.
• David Graham: The anti-MAGA majority re-emerges.
• Adam Kinzinger: More Mikie Sherrills, please. (Sherrill won the New Jersey gubernatorial race.)
• Paul Krugman: Which party is in trouble, again?
• Josh Marshall: DC conventional wisdom goes down to defeat in state after state.
• Jeff Maurer's hot take is that we probably didn't learn very much.
• Lauren Pope: Here's how [the Democrats] can win.
• Jennifer Rubin: Democrats in array.
• Michael Tomasky: America has big-time buyer's remorse about the OAFPOTUS.
• Matthew Yglesias: 13 takeaways from last night and now here comes the interesting part.
• Even John Scalzi had some thoughts.

While voters were handing the OAFPOTUS and his droogs their political asses during the longest government shutdown in history (second only to the one in their first term), armed thugs from the Dept of Homeland Security burst into a fucking day-care just a couple kilometers from my house to arrest a woman that the day care says is legally authorized to work for them. But little kids screaming in terror while one of their caregivers gets thrown to the floor and handcuffed is the point for these assholes, and is just one of the many malfeasances of this administration that led to yesterday's decisive losses for their party.

Yesterday showed that Americans learned the correct lessons from Venezuela and Hungary, and the Republicans didn't. Know hope.