Former Trump campaign chairman and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon told his podcast viewers that Republicans should take Tuesday night’s losses to heart, saying: “The midterms start tonight, and the warning signs are flashing.” He observed that “Democrats just flipped two Georgia commissioners,” marking “their first statewide wins in 30 years.”

Far-right influencer Mike Cernovich (who spawned the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory) tweeted: “Ted Cruz and Mark Levin are walking Trump into impeachments and then prison. 2026 will be a blood bath.” MAGA podcaster Jack Posobiec likewise warned that “2026 will be worse if we don’t course-correct.”

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    2 days ago

    They had so many opportunities to learn their lesson since 2016 and every time they have refused. I’m fully expecting them to learn nothing again.

    hopefully the infighting will make it easier for progressives to rise to prominence

    This is the real and probably only hope. If progressives thrash the establishment dems hard enough, they’ll at least pay lip service to them.

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      They will go to unimaginable lengths to learn the wrong lessons, don’t get me wrong. And they’re doing their very best

      They’re testing literally everything except being more progressive… Everything from working with MAGA and bringing out Obama

      But none of their bizarre mixing and matching of everything imaginable, including testing fucking Hunter Biden for a presidential run, have paid off at all

      I just think it’s finally obvious, and urgent, enough that the leadership is going to turn over. At the end of the day, the leadership might be willing to go down with the ship over this, but the rank and file won’t

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        22 hours ago

        The fail-children of millionaires who get jobs as staffers and run the party have historically burned down house before handing the keys to a progressive.

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          Umm… Yeah, I think that’s already happened

          They threw all the money and burned through all the remaining goodwill trying to keep us from getting to what happened Tuesday

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            19 hours ago

            lol not yet. Wait until state parties start intentionally wasting money, deleting databases, quitting en mass, appointing republican judges, etc.