I don’t know how the midterm elections will turn out; I think Republicans will do better than expected, but who knows? – yet there’s one thing I’m entirely sure of. This election cycle has, at least, allowed us Republicans to rid ourselves of some of the biggest hacks any political party has ever had the misfortune to be saddled with. Whether we beat them in primaries or scared them out of primaries entirely, they’re gone, and they aren’t coming back. When this is over, we will be rid of that fraud Thomas Massie, the insipid Thom Tillis, the tiresome Bill Cassidy, and the Kinzingeresque Ukrainian fetishizer Don Bacon. Also past his sell-by date is that Bushesque phony John Cornyn, whose absolutely disgraceful post-primary defeat conduct has utterly vindicated the Texas Republicans who rejected him, whether Ken Paxton beats the blasphemous homunculus or not.

These are just the biggest names on the marquee among the big pains in the keister. A lot of other alleged conservatives are going away too. Where’s Dan Crenshaw at? Oh yeah, the unemployment line next to Marjorie Taylor Greene. They’ve decided, or had it decided for them, that an era of a GOP whose theme music doesn’t come from Deliverance or a circus isn’t for them. Maybe they’re just scared. Maybe they’re just weak. Maybe they’re just submissive. Whatever it is, there’s no place for them in the Republican Party of the future. Have you met young men in 2026? When that generation finally takes over, it’ll be awesome. These guys make Ted Cruz look like AOC.

But that doesn’t mean that there isn’t still a contingent within the conservative establishment that is biding its time, hoping that this whole Donald Trump fever dream breaks and will get back to what they define as normal. They used to be in charge. They used to have power and prestige. Now, no one returns their calls. In fact, no one recognizes them when they call. “George Will who?”

Yeah, they somehow imagine that the GOP will sober up and turn to them once again, trusting them to manage our decline like inoffensive gentlemen. That’s why you get the impression that some Republicans in politics and the media think that the Democrats taking one or even both houses of Congress might not be such a bad thing. Of course, when a Republican’s primary goal is keeping other Republicans under control and preventing........

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