The Anti-Trump Wave Has Come, and Republicans Can't Stop It

[workinclasszero]

The Anti-Trump Wave Has Come, and Republicans Can’t Stop It
By Jonathan Chait November 7, 2017


Trump is a deeply unpopular president, and his party is in serious danger of losing control of the House, many of its down-ballot offices, and conceivably even the Senate.

To be sure, Virginia has unique demographic qualities that may have enhanced the power of the anti-Trump wave. It is a racially diverse state with a high proportion of college-educated voters. But there are many House Republicans from districts with similar demographic profiles – in New Jersey, New York, California, among other places. The suburbs alone could offer up enough Republican defeats to flip the House in 2018.

What is remarkable is that the Republican plan to avert this catastrophe is to inflict economic hardship on these very constituents. The party has convinced itself that the solution to its unpopularity is to vote through an unpopular plan to combine tax cuts for corporations and rich people with tax increases on a large minority of the middle class. The highest doses of fiscal pain of the Republican plan would be concentrated on upper middle-class voters who live in blue states – like, say, New Jersey, New York, and California.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/11/the-anti-trump-wave-has-come-and-republicans-cant-stop-it.html

[phylny]

1. K/R - n/t

[dalton99a]

2. Hang Trump around their necks next year

every goddamn one of them

[workinclasszero]

3. You got that right!!

[njhoneybadger]

6. That's right,

If they try to distance themselves from tRump he will attack them

[bdamomma]

22. we will too.

attack him through the ballot box.

[dalton99a]

9. +1

[PJMcK]

16. "A" for effort

"B-" for prosody.

Pretty funny, though!

[PJMcK]

25. Nah, doesn't quite scan that way

But you get an overall "A" anyway!

Have a great day.

[L. Coyote]

27. Too complicated for me, I'll stick to memes.

[uponit7771]

14. +1

[BigmanPigman]

4. They are setting themselves up for failure.

That doesn't seem like a very good strategy. Do they want tax cuts so badly that they are willing to risk reelection over it? People are all ready really angry about Healthcare. That is what got the Dems their wins last night. Voters said that their two biggest concerns were Trump and healthcare.

[PJMcK]

17. Their financial overlords are demanding the tax cuts

If the Kochs, the Mercers and the rest get their tax cuts, they won't care what happens to Ryan, McConnell, Trump or any other politicians.

The oligarchs will have achieved their primary goal.

[workinclasszero]

20. Yup the thug party has painted itself into a corner

There is no escape assholes!

Trump and his nazis on one side ready to shiv in the back any rethug that doesn't go alone with their racist agenda and the Mercer's and Koch bros on the other side demanding the rape of the workers of America so they can fill many more swimming pools with hundred dollar bills!

The democratic party will DESTROY these bastards in 2018 then on to the impeachment!!

[dewsgirl]

5. And it is beautiful to witness

Finally after a year of hell, the last couple of weeks there is a new feeling, many of us were becoming afraid to feel.HOPE.

[rainin]

7. Maybe Republicans are waking up

to the fact that their representives don't work for them. They work for their donors.

[workinclasszero]

32. I mean hell they come out in public and admit it now!

How damn stupid are republican voters anyway?

Their so-called reps are paid employees of the Mercer's and Kochs and only do what those creeps tell them to do.

[Achilleaze]

10. repukes can't stop the wave alone. But...

...with darkside collusion from their petro-corporate and Las Vegas casino megabucks men, and their vodka-swilling, evil-empire, money-mob comrades in russia, they could try to baffle then stomp the wave.

[PJMcK]

26. K&R

But I like to swill vodka, too!

[superpatriotman]

11. At least we know which issues to run on in 2018

Healthcare
Anti-.45
Anti-nra

Those three issues should effectively deliver the fabled "message" that (falsely) Democrats are accused of not conveying.

[Gothmog]

12. From Tom Perez

Link to tweet

[FSogol]

13. +1 Exactly. n/t

[L. Coyote]

15. MAGA Many Are Getting Asskicked

[lagomorph777]

19. Hah! Good one!

[lagomorph777]

18. GOP is committing political suicide.

And we will be only too happy to assist them, Kevorkian-style.

[MineralMan]

21. We shouldn't gloat, but should get to work building a tsunami

for 2018. We can't rest on our laurels, I think.

[DinahMoeHum]

29. MM, as my newly elected County Executive said to me. . .

"If you want to get to Berlin, first you have to get to Normandy"

Well, we secured the beachhead last night.

All those weeks and months of canvassing, phone-banking, post-card writing, etc. paid off.
Thousands of rung doorbells and knocks on doors, hundreds of pairs of shoe leather.

We busted ours. . .to kick theirs.

And we're building the benches for the future.

It's back to business tomorrow. For a few more races, then on to 2018.

But for today, we celebrate.

[MineralMan]

31. Yes. Today we celebrate! As we should.

[HughBeaumont]

24. Millionaire Assholes Grifting America.

This part is most especially galling in terms of why anyone from the Middle/Working/Poor classes would vote for this asshole -

What is remarkable is that the Republican plan to avert this catastrophe is to inflict economic hardship on these very constituents. The party has convinced itself that the solution to its unpopularity is to vote through an unpopular plan to combine tax cuts for corporations and rich people with tax increases on a large minority of the middle class. The highest doses of fiscal pain of the Republican plan would be concentrated on upper middle-class voters who live in blue states – like, say, New Jersey, New York, and California.

[muntrv]

28. Let's start with Alabama next month.

[redstatebluegirl]

30. I am as happy as I can be but...

we have to watch it, that we don't get to cocky. They will pull out every trick in the book after what happened to them yesterday. The Koch brothers will open up their wallets and run nasty nasty ads to scare the independents and less educated voters. GOTV has to be our battle cry from here on in. Yes, we have some great victories, but they are sneaky little sh... and we have to make sure we stay vigilant.

[underpants]

33. Last paragraph- spot on like the whole article

In the meantime, there is no sign of any corrective impulse within the Republican ranks. Its voters are too far gone, locked into the bubble of party-controlled media and unable to grasp the need for a course correction.

[RKP5637]

34. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[The_Casual_Observer]

35. Trump has done nothing uplifting or positive at all.

It's all been one shitty nasty thing after another, including encouraging neo-nazis to come to the surface. It's been a nightmare.

[workinclasszero]

36. A long national nightmare for sure

The first sign of hope was the asskickin the GOP fascists got last night.

Now we need to build on that for 2018 and take back our government from republican neo nazis!

[ProudLib72]

38. I got slammed last night for saying this very same thing

WTF?

Don't say it's just because of anti-Dotard sentiment! How dare you make this a referendum on Dotard!

I don't get it.

[lindysalsagal]

39. My take: GOP voters are stupid. 45 makes stupid seem good. GOP put up stupid leaders.

Stupid leaders do stupid things, especially when it worked so well for 45.

Bottom line: The smarter ones are retiring, or just living out their terms. Or hiding from reporters.

[roamer65]

40. I hope Dump keeps doubling down and stays long enough.

[workinclasszero]

41. It is funny because

Dump is destroying the republican party and they are powerless to stop him.

If they don't take yesterdays curb stomping by the voters/democratic party to heart, they will be dead as a national party real soon.