Don’t fear the Electoral Reaper in the 2026 midterms – the GOP just needs to be prepared to give it more cowbell. Look, we’ve been told again and again and again that we will certainly lose the House, but those are the same experts who told us we couldn’t close the border without throwing it wide open, that peace in the Middle East was impossible without surrendering to 7th-century savages, and that some women have a penis. What they don’t know would fill volumes. Stop listening to them. We’re looking good in 2026. We just need more cowbell.

For the folks in the slow seats, “cowbell” means hard work. The bad guys are on the back foot, but they are as energized as 80-year-old boomers can be, so we need to outwork them.

In the House, we’re not looking perfect, but we are looking strong. The moving parts are moving in our direction. It can certainly go bad. The historical trends are doubtless against us, though in 2002, George W. Bush managed to add seats in a first-term midterm. Of course, this isn’t a first term for Donald Trump. Depending on who you ask, it’s the second or third. But he’s broken all the rules before, and there’s no reason why those old rules must apply here. As Laurence of Arabia memorably proclaimed, “Nothing is written.”

It’s on us to win this thing, and we can.

Gerrymandering is going to help. The proper position on gerrymandering is to be actively in favor of it. After all, the designation of legislative districts is a quintessential political act, so no one should demand that legislatures shouldn’t act politically to create those districts. When you act politically, you should act to advantage your own side. There’s nothing wrong with that. In fact, the real problem is when legislators fail to act in their constituents’ interests.

That’s why I have no problem morally with my governor, Gavin Hairstyle, deciding to change all the rules that they had previously exploited to different rules that they can now exploit even more to utterly shaft the remaining Republican remnant in the golden-brown state. Aesthetically, I find his fake babbling about how disenfranchising Republicans is necessary to protect Our Democracy – geez, weasel, have the cajones to admit you’re just trying to win. Politically, I don’t like it. I don’t like anything that helps my opponents. But I’m not going to cry about it like a little sissy or a Democrat, to the extent those are different (sissies remain a vital component of the Democrat coalition).

Gerrymandering is just a thing. And was also just a thing when New York and Illinois........

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