Conservatives, Republicans and Trump are at a permanent disadvantage when developments supporting their positions and policies are routinely buried, spun, distorted or ignored altogether. How much coverage did the GNP numbers get last week? Never mind: the average voter doesn’t understand the GNP, or care.

3. After a past GOP wipe-out, the late Rush Limbaugh opined, “You can’t fight free stuff.” This round the Democrats (and their allied socialists and communists) were promising lots of free stuff, especially free health care. Barack Obama had the chutzpah to run around the country demanding that U.S. health care costs had to be fixed, after his much-heralded solution when he was POTUS turned out to be an expensive flop, as many predicted at the time. Have I mentioned that Barack Obama is an asshole?

4. If you want proof of just how ignorant and easily manipulated much of the voting public is, try this: it looks like every one of the anti-data center measures on the ballot will win. Democrats seized on AI as their latest hysteria-mongering tactic, now that climate change proved to be a waste of billions and only a handful of woke boobs are still wearing masks. Dealing with transformational new technologies by hoping they’ll go away has never worked and never will, and the AI revolution is a particularly dangerous one to be slow to join. “Don’t know much about history” paired with “Don’t know much technology” will not lead to a wonderful world. Morons.

Proving how much they deserve the label “The Stupid Party,” Republicans chose too many terrible candidates. Democrats did too, but their terrible candidates were air-brushed into faux beauty by the Axis media. The GOP lost a winnable Senate seat in South Carolina by nominating the sister of the late Republican who had held the seat. What was that supposed to mean? “Aw, poor lady, this will make her feel better!”? “Hey, isn’t this a hereditary aristocracy?” “Who else have we got? Our party doesn’t have any qualified candidates!”? President Trump is accountable because he had the brilliant idea of having Darlene Graham appointed to take her brother’s place, but Darlene was the main Ethics Dunce here. She should have declined overtures to put her in the Senate, and she absolutely should not have sought the nomination to run in the mid-terms. After all, you could throw a rock into a crowd and have good odds of hitting someone as fit for the U.S. Senate as she is. Reckless POTUS plus deluded relative plus irresponsible GOP primary voters equal a flipped Senate seat. Good job, everybody!

Added: Apparently Trump asked Darline to run for a full term. (See item #8 below). Writes Jennifer Rust: “Can you blame Darline Graham for saying yes when he asked her to run?” Yes, and you should. Knowing your limitations and being responsible is everyone’s ethical duty.

5. That the Maine Democratic Party’s disgusting behavior trying to defeat Susan Collins succeeded just ensures cheating, lying and gaming the system becomes further embedded in the national party. Collins ran a miserable campaign, essentially arguing that she votes like a Democrat in the Senate a lot anyway. Why would any Republican be motivated to vote for her? Why would a Democrat?

6. Apparently the Blue Wave in Texas confirms the fear that all the alienated California progressives who fled the mess their mad ideology made in the Golden State now want to produce an encore in the Lone Star state. But again, Paxton was a terrible candidate who never should have been nominated. Apparently today’s Texans prefer phonies (Talarico) to felons. I can’t argue too hard against that choice.

7. Back to the media for a nonce: I read a piece at The Hill describing Michigan’s new Jew-hating, terrorism-supporting Senator as “a doctor.” He has a medical degree, and misrepresents himself as a physician. The Hill also wrote that he served as Executive Director of the Detroit Health Department (2015–2017) and later as the Director of the Wayne County Department of Health, Human and Veterans Services. Neither is a medical position or one that requires a medical license. They are administrative jobs: an experienced manager or a lawyer could handle them. In fact, I, with my law licenses, ran a national heath care organization.

8. Ultimately, the main architect of last night’s disaster was President Trump. If, as Adam Coleman says, mid-terms occur when the public starts getting sick of the President, this POTUS often seemed to be trying to make voters sick of him while he actively encouraged Trump Derangement. Trump’s duty to the nation was to minimize the Democratic Party’s push for total dominance, shredding of the Constitution, open borders and anti-white, anti-male discrimination. Instead he stupidly indulged himself and his passion for un-Presidential speech and conduct, as well as the appearance of impropriety and sometimes actual impropriety, while often making defensible decisions that were still guaranteed to be widely seen as improper anyway.

Let’s see: these are just some of the examples I have flagged: the recent press secretary debacle, his gifts to his staff, his trolling about his place in Presidential history, and the indefensible “Trump Kennedy Center” stunt. Regarding Trump’s unforgivable attack last year on Rob Reiner after he had been murdered, I wrote,

“This, in turn, poses the real danger that Trump’s revolting post will prove to be a tipping point, that last, tiny, thing that makes the Jenga tower fall or Mr. Creosote’s stomach explode as it does after eating the “wafer thin” morsel offered him in the clip above from “The Meaning of Life.” Trump’s stupid, mean words may well tip public opinion against his whole Presidency permanently and completely. If so, it will undoubtedly be the most trivial verbal tipping point in U.S. political history. By comparison, George Romney saying he had been “brainwashed,” President Ford saying in a debate that the Soviet Union did not dominate Eastern Europe, or President Carter claiming in his debate with Ronald Reagan that he consulted daughter Amy on nuclear weapons policy seem positively earth-shattering. And yet if attacking a recently slaughtered director crushes Trump’s chances of holding off the Far Left’s siege on American values and core individual liberties, it may prove to be the most consequential moment in his Presidency.”

Who knows what part that played in last night’s rout, but this, which I hold to be genuinely impeachable conduct, was worse. You can bet the new House majority will see it as impeachable as well.

Conclusion: President Trump did this to himself, his party and his country. Now it’s “Make America Stupid Again for at least two years.