Seeds of Change a'Comin'

A new MAGA core will lay the groundwork to permanent, massive change in America

I get it. It’s hard for a voter to even look as far a November, let alone November 2024. But the stage is being set for as fundamental a transformation in American politics as when Abraham Lincoln won in 1860 and the DemoKKKrats walked out.

Flashback to 2017-2020. Donald Trump, despite accomplishing more in a single term than any president in American history, was hamstrung the entire time by “Muh Russia,” the Mulehead investigation, and a weak-kneed House and Senate. Republicans lost the House in 2018, and senators remained skittish of fully supporting the President due to ongoing harassment from the Special Counsel.

There were relatively few MAGA people in Washington anyway, and the few in the Senate kept their heads down.

But 2022 is blowing in winds of change. First, a raft of populist, anti-establishment senators is set to win their states. Herschel Walker in Georgia, J. D. Vance in Ohio, Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania, Adam Laxalt in Nevada, Ted Budd in North Carolina all appear in good position to win. The race in New Hampshire might, with luck, go to a Republican, but it is doubtful a MAGA candidate could emerge there. Colorado is gettable, but another long shot. MurCowSki in Alaska should be finished, and possibly will be but she has more lives than a feral cat.

Still, if these five win, and are suddenly aligned with proto-MAGA-ites such as Marsha Blackburn, Josh Hawley, Ron Johnson, John Kennedy, Rick Scott, along with the next tier of “close-to-MAGA” of Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and possibly Tim Scott (depending on how much he needs Trump at a given time) we could be looking at a significant realignment of the Senate. That’s over one-quarter of the GOP caucus. If there are some upsets with MurCowSki, the MAGA caucus could push even higher.

Certainly that’s a profound enough change already to threaten Yertle. Absolutely it would be enough of a shift to force him to make many concessions to the MAGA-ites.

The House is already poised to have a powerful MAGA contingent, enough to demand MAGA policies.

But that’s just 2022. Two years later, when Trump is the odds-on favorite to win reelection, the GOP is in an even stronger position regarding Senate vacancies. Oh, and Trump is definitely accelerating. Today’s Rasmussen poll had him up over the Rutabaga by 14, while a poll just days earlier had him up four. What’s significant is that in 2020 not a single national poll had Trump up. These numbers would translate into a 350+ electoral victory (and I believe he would win close to 90 million popular votes). They stole one—-they can’t do it twice.

In other words, looking ahead to 2024, there is a very good chance that not only do we again control all three branches, but that MAGA—-not the GOP—-is in control of those branches. Combined with a favorable U.S. Supreme Court that is ready to once again apply the Constitution and not make new law, the incoming winds are of gale force.

Larry Schweikart

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