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I'm not a Republican. I am in favor of personal freedom, which the Republicans arguably offer more of at this point. After the Covid-and-lockdown mania, I am unlikely to support anyone with a D next to their name any time soon. I found Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of my state, to be abhorrent due to her pandemic decisions. Before that, I was fairly indifferent to her.
It appears that I'm stuck with her for another four years. I have no idea if Tudor Dixon would have made a good governor. At this point, all I really want from the government is for them to get the hell out of my personal life.
I think that may be part of the problem Republicans are having. Their main selling point is they aren't Democrats. Apparently that isn't enough for a wide swath of the country. They are against a lot of things that are, rightly or not, regarded as fringe issues with a lot of voters, like CRT and the radical trans agenda. I'm not a fan of those things, but if I wasn't anti-lockdown and anti-mandate, I probably wouldn't be incredibly motivated to vote R just based on that. I also don't really want that stuff in the schools, but I'm not against trans people living their lives as they see fit either, and CRT isn't any more right or wrong than any other ideology, I just don't buy into it.
Another problem is Donald Trump. Lots of Republicans are blaming him for the "red trickle", and I think they are probably right. I never cared about the guy's "cult of personality". He had some ideas I thought were interesting, and the media very much lied about and misrepresented a lot of what he had to say. He was also a crap politician who let Fauci and his goons run the show, greenlighted the MRNA vaccines, let the country descend into chaos in the wake of the Floyd killing, lost the popular vote by a landslide and failed to win the electoral vote beyond the required margin of cheating in 2020. He let the country get torn apart after he lost and has never moved on from 2020. My personal last straw was him attacking Republican candidates and failing to support people he helped to get nominated to win their elections. He's not an effective leader, he was always just a hand grenade.
If he runs in 2024, I don't think he will win. I think the American people as a whole are just tired of him. He will always have die-hard supporters and true believers. I'm not one and never was. There are a lot of things that I can agree with conservatives about, and there are still things Democrats support I can get behind too. In my opinion, Trump is an albatross.
My big hope for the midterms was that a message would be sent to our crap political class that we the people are over their nonsense and they need to change course. Apparently most of the country are happy enough with how things are going to stay the course. Maybe go down with the ship is a better phrase...
It appears that I'm stuck with her for another four years. I have no idea if Tudor Dixon would have made a good governor. At this point, all I really want from the government is for them to get the hell out of my personal life.
I think that may be part of the problem Republicans are having. Their main selling point is they aren't Democrats. Apparently that isn't enough for a wide swath of the country. They are against a lot of things that are, rightly or not, regarded as fringe issues with a lot of voters, like CRT and the radical trans agenda. I'm not a fan of those things, but if I wasn't anti-lockdown and anti-mandate, I probably wouldn't be incredibly motivated to vote R just based on that. I also don't really want that stuff in the schools, but I'm not against trans people living their lives as they see fit either, and CRT isn't any more right or wrong than any other ideology, I just don't buy into it.
Another problem is Donald Trump. Lots of Republicans are blaming him for the "red trickle", and I think they are probably right. I never cared about the guy's "cult of personality". He had some ideas I thought were interesting, and the media very much lied about and misrepresented a lot of what he had to say. He was also a crap politician who let Fauci and his goons run the show, greenlighted the MRNA vaccines, let the country descend into chaos in the wake of the Floyd killing, lost the popular vote by a landslide and failed to win the electoral vote beyond the required margin of cheating in 2020. He let the country get torn apart after he lost and has never moved on from 2020. My personal last straw was him attacking Republican candidates and failing to support people he helped to get nominated to win their elections. He's not an effective leader, he was always just a hand grenade.
If he runs in 2024, I don't think he will win. I think the American people as a whole are just tired of him. He will always have die-hard supporters and true believers. I'm not one and never was. There are a lot of things that I can agree with conservatives about, and there are still things Democrats support I can get behind too. In my opinion, Trump is an albatross.
My big hope for the midterms was that a message would be sent to our crap political class that we the people are over their nonsense and they need to change course. Apparently most of the country are happy enough with how things are going to stay the course. Maybe go down with the ship is a better phrase...