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Tuesday is a lot like Monday; everyone is waiting for Wednesday.
GEORGIA’S RUN-OFF election to fill two seats in the U.S. Senate takes place today.
Both races are projected to be close, with Democrats likely to win given the state of play following the November election. It would be strange to see the seats split between the parties, but it might happen (Trafalgar polling shows a split).
Higher odds are on a sweep. If Democrats win and election challenges are lodged by either or both GOP candidates, it will be interesting to see how they’re treated compared to orange man bad.
Should Democrats prevail, we’ll have a 50/50 split in the upper chamber with Kamala Harris acting as the tiebreaker. A power-sharing agreement similar to the one reached in the year 2000 is possible.
THE MEDIA narrative setting continues to be that the 2020 election was legitimate (most Americans disagree). Lawmakers not going along with the media machinations are being called traitors and attacked.
In hindsight, barring a duly elected president from leading, maladministration of an election, and the complete bastardization of the U.S. judicial system to protect said the flawed election result would be correctly seen as treasonous.
Activity opposing Biden at this point has low odds of success. Still, the result's objection is needed and will be great.
In part, this week continues to set the stage for intraparty battles in 2022 and 2024. My money will be on substance beating performative politics. Think Governor DeSantis vs. Senator Sass-e-pants, any number of his colleagues, or former top-level Republican officials angling for the Oval Office.
These folks in the latter category are all hat and no cattle; they’re inauthentic and unrelatable. Their time leading the GOP is coming to a close.
There’s speculation a third party will form to capture these two competing camps. This is possible but unlikely. Would DeSantis prefer to win the GOP, which he can, or start a new party?
Even if a new right-of-center party were to form, it’s just as if not more plausible that a progressive/Socialist party will emerge and siphon support from Democrats.
Over the last year, there have been increasing signals from the far left that they are worried about the ruling establishment technocrats, their increasing authoritarian stranglehold on the media, technology, and late education.
If you haven’t already, check out the story of progressive tenured professor Mark Crispin Miller at NYU, who is being canceled because of assigned reading. His sin? The reading was on the propaganda of mask-wearing.
Miller believed and wrote a book contesting the 2004 election was stolen by George Bush. The popular theory of election fraud among Democrats in 2004 was electronic fraud.
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