Wow, that was a short tenure as a Democratic Party “rising star”!

Representative Jasmine Crockett issued a statement last night conceding the Democratic Senate nomination in Texas to James Talarico, a state lawmaker and seminarian, but not before claiming earlier that she had been defeated by Republican election tampering and that voters had been “disenfranchised.”

“Texas is primed to turn blue, and we must remain united because this is bigger than any one person,” she said in her statement. “This is about the future of all 30 million Texans and getting America back on track.” At least Crockett is smart enough to know that bitterly complaining after getting beaten is no way to continue her political career. What is a way will prove elusive in her case. At best, she may try to be Texas’s Stacy Abrams. Talk about low aspirations…

Talarico said in a speech early today that “The people of our state gave this country a little bit of hope.” He didn’t mean it quite the way I do, but he’s right anyway. In a little detail that few news sources (including the New York Times) are bothering to mention, Crockett’s expanded ego led her to believe her own press clippings and run for the Senate rather than try to keep her current seat in the House. She didn’t run in the primary to represent her current district, so at least until 2009, the loud-mouthed, vulgar, jive-talking, in-your-face parody of a black politician is out of national politics. That means both Crockett and Marjorie Taylor Greene, who took turns insulting each other like mean girls during a House session last year, will be out of Congress come January. Greene is already gone. Calloo Callay!

There is indeed hope: Crockett’s ad hominem, “fuck”-filled, ugly style of political discourse lowered the bar to gutter level, and yet the Trump Deranged cheered her on. But even her solid “blue” district had the sense to see that she was a fraud, talking down to black voters with a fake ebonics accent, and generally assuming that Abe was wrong when he said you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.

As usual, Abe was right. Pssst! Abe! Now do Gavin Newsom…