The day after the mid-terms, the airways were filled with Monday morning quarterbacks exulting or bemoaning the results of the elections. Mostly, Democrats and their supporters claimed success at not being swept by the Republican tsunami predicted by the likes of Newt Gingrich and Larry Kudlow. Did the disappointing GOP losses result from its candidates being outspent? Or because Trump had backed the wrong ones in winnable races? Was running on the issues of inflation, crime, immigration and energy the wrong strategy? How could Oz lose to Fetterman, considered by many the worst senatorial candidate of all time? I think the answer lies partly in the last-minute strategy used by Biden and the Democrats to make democracy the deciding issue and Trump the fall guy, even if obliquely. The threats to democracy, said Biden, were the Mega-Maga-Neo Fascist Trump supporters. Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina went so far as to find a parallel to the rise of Nazis in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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