It's Donnie's "wee liddle" mandate. All the widdle MAGA's in Magaville have to push out their chests and extoll the greatest mandate in the history of mandates. It's a MAGA landslide. Hurray!
The issue is, of course, that winning by 10 points or 1 doesn’t matter in terms of what policy they can implement when said margin gave them a trifecta.
Like so many sports, in politics, a win by 1 lets you put a tick mark in the win column as much as a win by 10 would.
I assure you, the populists coming into power will not give one iota about how popular their broad agenda is; they can and will implement every facet of it they can. Their politics is not based on triangulation of the electorate’s will, but rather immediate and drastic implementation.
The Republican Party is overwhelmingly ideologically committed to Trumpism, and deviating from or obstructing his agenda is a guaranteed death sentence in the Republican primaries; *that* is where they’re positioning to, not the general electorate.
They obviously cheated! How in the hell do you win threatening voters lying & absolutely being responsible for 1 million deaths with COVID & a horrible economy before! Babbling about tariffs & child care & pink snakes & mimicking raping a child with that oh mama it hurts bullshit!
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Like so many sports, in politics, a win by 1 lets you put a tick mark in the win column as much as a win by 10 would.
Elections are a referendum on the ruling party within a democracy. Large margins can be used to justify extensive changes in direction.
Small victories can give pause to elected officials. That's the key here.
It's a question of the senators and representatives opinion on the victory margin. They may give pause if it's meaningful to their reelection.
It's admittedly a small chance, but a nonzero one.
Duty to warn and update
https://substack.com/@spoonamore/note/p-151721941?r=fjy2v
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