‘This is not the Republican Party anymore, it’s the MAGA party’: Joe Concha
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Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha said, “This is not the Republican Party, it’s the MAGA party,” arguing that President Donald Trump’s continued success in Republican primaries demonstrates the extent to which the GOP has become aligned with the MAGA movement. Concha highlighted Trump’s success rate in backing Republican candidates and pointed to recent defeats suffered by […]
Republicans are growing increasingly “uncomfortable” as a confluence of factors have “scrambled the political math in typically red Texas,” Axios reported Sunday, factors that could potentially flip a seat that has been held by a Republican since 1994.Among the strongest factors is Texas’ demographic shift, with more than 2.5 million Americans having moved to the Lone Star State since 2020. Texas’ new residents, political science professor Brandon Rottinghaus told Axios, are also “less tied to Texas’ long-standing political patterns,” the outlet reported, giving Democrats a greater chance at flipping the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), who was defeated in the GOP primary last week by the state’s attorney general Ken Paxton.Political science Professor Mark P. Jones supported Rottinghaus’ theory as well, telling Axios that Texas’ new residents are typically either “economic migrants” or “political refugees" – or both.Another major concern for Republicans is Texas’ Hispanic population, now the state’s largest demographic group. Hispanic voters were a significant factor in President Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory, but recent polls have suggested that Hispanic voters were abandoning Trump in droves, a dynamic that could bode poorly for the Trump-endorsed Paxton in November.Trump won 55% of Hispanic Texas voters in 2024 according to exit polls, but as of last week, the president’s disapproval among the group has soared to 67%.“Paxton carries years of legal and ethical baggage, but [Democratic Senate nominee James] Talarico also has vulnerabilities in a state that still leans conservative, including past comments on religion and his progressive profile Republicans will target,” wrote Axios’ Russell Contreras.“Texas isn't suddenly blue. But it is bigger, newer and less predictable – and that's enough to make Paxton's Senate race uncomfortable for Republicans.”
Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) is pitching a Southern Democratic revival as part of the party’s path back to national power, arguing that gains in traditionally Republican states could reshape the political map ahead of the 2028 presidential election. Beshear, the chairman of the Democratic Governors Association and a frequently mentioned 2028 presidential prospect, pointed Sunday to […]
Republican Rep. Nancy Mace responded to being snubbed by President Donald Trump by posting a public declaration of loyalty on Saturday, touting a "100% lifetime voting record supporting Trump" — a move that drew immediate ridicule from critics on the left and the right, including some of Trump's most devoted online supporters.Mace, who is running for governor of South Carolina and had been seeking Trump's endorsement, appeared to be auditioning for his support with the post despite Trump already formally endorsing her opponent. Even MAGA world wasn't buying it.Catturd, one of Trump's most prominent social media boosters, called it out directly. "This is so cringe because Trump didn't endorse her," he wrote.George Santos, the former congressman convicted of fraud, was equally dismissive. "This is misleading," Santos wrote. "Mace is not endorsed by President Trump and has been snubbed by most of MAGA due to her insane meltdowns and insanity."Jonah Goldberg, the conservative commentator and co-founder of The Dispatch, skipped the words entirely and responded with a GIF captioned with "so thirsty."Critics outside the MAGA world went further. Libertarian leader Caryn Ann Harlos offered a one-line translation: "She is an empty brain."Anthony Sisk, a business strategist, dug up Mace's history, reminding her that she distanced herself from Trump in the immediate aftermath of January 6, 2021, when she believed his political career was finished. "What'd you do just 2 months after voting Trump in 2020 when you thought his political career was over?" Sisk wrote. "Cut and ran with the establishment. You're not cut out to be Governor."Political commentator David Marcus noted the episode could serve as a meaningful test of Trump's endorsement power, observing that Mace is harder to dismiss as an obstructionist than other Republicans Trump has targeted.Trump has not publicly responded to Mace's loyalty declaration.This is so cringe because Trump didn’t endorse her. 🤮 https://t.co/3NyRijhwOm— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) May 31, 2026
MSNOW Host Jonathan Capehart appeared on PBS this weekend and claimed that Joe Biden's health was examined closely by the media and the public, then suggested that Trump is getting a pass on the same issue.
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The Texas senator was emblematic of the era between Reagan and Trump, as Republicans shifted from the party of business to a cult of personalityThe defeat of John Cornyn is a milestone in the downfall of the Republican party. His virtue for decades as a “steady conservative institutionalist”, as the New York Times described him, became his terminal liability. His expenditure of $92m, the greatest amount ever dropped by a candidate in a Senate primary, could not forestall his humiliation at the hands of the scoundrel Ken Paxton, with his lengthy rap sheet of allegations of bribery, abuse of office, felony securities fraud and impeachment by the Republican-controlled Texas House, along with his hostile divorce by his wife on “biblical grounds”. Despite Cornyn’s blast of TV ads against “Crooked Ken”, the “Home Wrecker”, Paxton, carrying the imprimatur of Donald Trump, trounced him by 28 points. Immediately after the primary, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which Cornyn had once led, set about scrubbing the ads as if there had been no Cornyn campaign at all and the villainous Paxton was the rightful successor to hold the Senate seat Cornyn had occupied for 24 years. The Orwellian erasure was a further measure of the relentless Trump effort to stamp out of existence the remnants of the old party and to build on its ashes his golden idol.Cornyn’s ignominious rejection is not his alone. His loss represents the ongoing shattering of the Republican party whose foundations were laid by Ronald Reagan, laboriously built in Texas by the Bushes, both father and son, with their operative Karl Rove, and, within the Senate, where Cornyn arrived in 2002, the ruling Republican structure established by Mitch McConnell. Cornyn rode on the Reagan wave that swept aside Democrats in Texas, to be raised up as a factotum of the Bush operation, and serve as the indispensable conduit of funds from the oil and gas industry to fuel McConnell’s dark money machine that financed Republican candidates, destroyed campaign finance reform, and secured the conservative majority on the supreme court.Sidney Blumenthal, former senior adviser to President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, has published three books of a projected five-volume political life of Abraham Lincoln: A Self-Made Man, Wrestling With His Angel and All the Powers of Earth. He is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...
MAGA is in full implosion mode thanks to a single not safe for work tweet sent out from the official Democrats Twitter account on Wednesday. Yes, the same bully cult that prides itself on trolling liberal accounts all day, every day on every possible social media platform, is clutching their collective pearls over a five-word tweet clapping back at Kapo Nosferatu Stephen Miller. We don’t have enough time or internet space to delve into everything that’s terrible about Miller, but as an American Jew (who’s also a staunch atheist), I can tell you that no one in the Tribe claims such a glaring example of Jewish self-hatred. The guy who separated breastfeeding infants from their mothers at the border (presumably to drink their blood, although I can’t confirm that), describes human beings as “illegals,” and tweets hateful propaganda about all minorites got his vampiric snowflake feelings hurt over the kind of reply liberals usually get from MAGA trolls. Stephen Miller's X account. I realize that’s not the height of political discourse, but it’s just perfect. Short, succinct, and hits MAGA right where they live. I have live replies right now from MAGA trolls that are far worse than that, and it doesn’t even matter when you’re reading this. Because they’ll always be the worst part of social media as long as their cult exists. Liberals immediately began sharing screenshots of the “shut up you ugly f--k” reply to use as evergreen responses to MAGA’s weaker meme game. MAGA snowflakes started with their usual manufactured outrage because their entire default setting is one big perceived slight. Things escalated rapidly thanks to Nosferatu’s wife, Katie, who decided to take it further by revealing the tweet was written by Paulina Mangubat, the DNC’s Deputy Chief Mobilization Officer. Maybe it was just her pregnancy hormones getting the best of her, because Katie is currently carrying their fourth unholy spawn, but she went full MAGA Mean Girl on Paulina.“She’s 30, unmarried with no kids. Put your name on it next time. This is what a sad, unhappy, female Liberal looks like,” KKKatie tweeted, along with a photo of Mangubat. “It’s why Pew reports 50% of them have been diagnosed with a mental condition.”We haven’t been, btw. Single liberal women are pretty happy not to be stuck with an ancient traitorous succubus hanging upside-down all night above our beds, for example. I often find myself hoping that the Millers have designated actually decent people as godparents for their kids, because once both of them are in prison forever, someone needs to make sure those kids unlearn any hate they’ve been carefully taught.Anyway, Paulina has plenty of support online from her co-workers, who understand exactly how effective her tweet was.Paulina also went on the Meidas Touch podcast and was basically all, “I said what I said.”I love her SO MUCH. This is the non-apologetic energy we need to be seeing from Democrats until November. We have only good things to promote about our candidates, while MAGA continues to align behind the worst traitors this country has ever produced.Gone are the days of “When they go low, we go high,” my friends. Democrats are all too often accused of not fighting hard enough, but we’ve seen enough “Nerds vs Bullies” movies to know that we’ve hit the moment in the third act when we build a clubhouse during a montage that’s set to “New Song” by Howard Jones and start doing some serious PT to get ready for the final battle.What first started with Gavin Newsom’s digi team co-opting Trump’s posting style to mock him has now become a full-on campaign tactic for the Democratic Party. Using MAGA’s methods, as well as their own words, is such an incredibly effective tactic. All it took was a little creative use of AI, and boom, MAGA Snowflakes falling everywhere.You know MAGA is worried about the midterms just from the way they’re attacking James Talarico, who’s running for Senate in Texas. Aside from falsely framing him as a vegan in the meat-loving Lone Star State, Stephen Miller’s tweet suggesting Talarico is transgender is full-on defamation. Talarico’s opponent, sex offender Ken Paxton, actually called the devout Christian “Talafreako,” because projection language goes hand-in-hand with their bullying.So what did Talarico’s team do? They took a note from “Dark Brandon” and co-opted his bully’s words to start a trend instead.You can now purchase “Talafreako” t-shirts on his official campaign website. BRILLIANT! I’d wear that and I spent plenty of time tweeting my support of Jasmine Crockett over James Talarico, because I understand the importance of boosting ALL Democratic candidates in ALL states.And I also understand the importance of never letting up on MAGA. We know how to hit them in the feels, and that’s where we need to keep hitting them. Mocking their defense of Trump with screenshots from the Epstein Files is especially effective because they can’t come up with any excuses for defending him.
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