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Originally Posted by champstark
I don't think people really appreciate how big a deal it is to take the Senate back in 2018 to stop two years of INSANE Trump judicial appointments. He's appointed the most unqualified, crazy conservative judges so far, and the Republican plan is extremely aggressive to fill every seat. Even if Trump loses in 2020, he will have done damage to the judiciary that will last decades (already Gorsuch is serving to like 2050, minimum).
Maybe not, but this is not entirely a bad thing. There is a reason participation is down in midterms generally. This time it might help democrats, whereas it usually benefits Republicans.
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Originally Posted by Rococo
This is one of the really gratifying things about this election. Bannon completely and utterly **** the bed. But Fly, you know why Bannon did it. He has an ego the size of cruise ship, and he wanted to demonstrate that the anti-establishment fervor in the GOP was so strong, and he was so in touch with it, that he could even get a guy like Roy Moore elected.
The media and everyone else just has to stop treating these guys as geniuses. They are utterly incompetent at every stage, but managed to get lucky under a handful of times.
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Originally Posted by FlyWf
Corey Robin has an important take on this:
The democrats are definitely not in good shape, but they're energized. This energy won't in itself lead to better candidates in 2018 or 2020. Most of the people winning in a wave election on the left will be like Doug Jones. Plainly mediocre, but a gigantic step up over the other side.