2022 Election Postmortem
Analysis. To begin with, it must be said that I was once again correct – while I hoped for a Red Wave, I accurately predicted that what we would have instead is a Blue Puddle , Democrats doing much better than expected. Before we do an election postmortem, two other points. First, Tucker Carlson’s “analysis” that the real problem was that the Republicans could not get their message out because of media bias is absurd. While it is true that such bias exists and does harm the GOP, it was not among the primary reasons for the electoral catastrophe. After all, in 2016, Trump was elected, and the GOP controlled Congress (accomplishing absolutely nothing – a clue to the real issues), in the face of strong media bias. DeSantis did very well in Florida in this election despite the media. And it should be noted that one primary reason that the media bias exists in the first place is that the incompetent Right has allowed the Left to take over all of America’s major instit...