Election 2020: Some Good News

Member Group : Jerry Shenk

As of this writing, nothing has changed. Litigation and/or recounts have begun or are pending in a number of cliffhanger states, including Pennsylvania, so, Democrat/media exuberance notwithstanding, the 2020 presidential election remains uncertified. For weeks, the biggest winners may be lawyers and liquor stores.

One suspects, though, that, if only legal votes are counted, President Donald Trump wins.

But, no matter how that race turns out, America can celebrate some known election results.

Expecting a national repudiation of President Trump, congressional Democrats forecasted major gains, a “certainty” on which they bet astonishing amounts of campaign cash.

But Democrats suffered a net loss of U.S. House seats. While losing eight incumbents so far, including one in leadership, and still trailing in other districts, Democrats failed to pick off a single Republican House incumbent. A GOP net gain of eighteen seats would flip the House.

Not known for their introspection, Democrats’ intramural finger-pointing began immediately, casting doubt on the competence – and future – of their leadership.

Other November 3 news is even better. Despite defending fewer seats, Democrats didn’t win a Senate majority. Amusingly, Democrats spent $109 million to lose a South Carolina Senate race by fourteen points, almost as much in Kentucky to lose by twenty.

A Republican Senate will make the Democrats’ radical platform impossible to enact.

Should Joe Biden prevail without the Senate, Democrats won’t be able to pass his promised tax increases, his stealth socialized-medicine scheme, or the Green New Deal featured on Biden’s campaign website.

Additionally, minority Democrats will be unable to stack the Senate deck by admitting Washington DC and Puerto Rico as states, or pack the Supreme Court to upset it’s constitutional originalist majority.

If she remains Speaker, Nancy Pelosi will be forced to confine legislation to things a Republican Senate will pass, but attempts at bipartisanship will incur outrage from her caucus’s overt/covert socialists. On legislation, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would be the most consequential political figure in either party, at least until Republicans flip the House and name a speaker.

Powerline contributor Steven Hayward writes, “With the GOP keeping the Senate and improving in the House, we have four years of gridlock ahead, and…gridlock is the next best thing to constitutional government.”

If he wins, down-ticket failures mean Biden would have no clear public mandate. After suffering one of the emptiest, most humiliating “victories” in the history of American electoral politics, Biden would be a lame duck on Inauguration Day.

Furthermore, because counting oversight obstructions and significant mathematical, statistical, and logical abnormalities, irregularities, and/or impossibilities occurred in every state Biden needed to overtake the president’s comfortable election night leads, if Americans aren’t convinced that all the right things were done to resolve/correct credible allegations of fraudulent voting/vote counting in closely-contested states Biden ultimately carries, most of America, geographically, at least, will consider itself disenfranchised and Biden illegitimate.

But, “good news” includes the likelihood that litigation will cause many jurisdictions where election fraud is systemic – Philadelphia, Detroit, others – to be closely scrutinized, violations made public, and future fraud made more difficult.

Finally, among the most satisfying early election results was the increasing numbers of voters who rejected the racial incitement and fearmongering in which Democrats relentlessly indulge.

Left-liberals have nasty habits of branding people with whom they merely disagree “racists,” and “xenophobes,” among other charming race-based epithets, and constantly lecturing Americans about “white supremacy” and “systemic racism.”

President Trump, Trump voters, Republicans, and white people generally have been daily targets of those gratuitous slanders.

Democrats ran against Mr. Trump’s immigration policies, including travel shutdowns from countries that harbor Islamic extremists, and hostile media tried to link him to white supremacists. Black Lives Matter mobs took to city streets in violent “protest.” Big Tech piled on.

Nonetheless, Mr. Trump’s 2020 share of minority voters increased. According to available national data, his performance among black voters increased by 50 percent over 2016; his Hispanic vote by 14 percent; and Asian-American voters increased their support by 15 percent.

In other words, an alleged “racist,” won a larger share of minority votes than any Republican since 1960.

2020 Democrats made another enormous investment in racial fearmongering – and failed.

That’s an easily-overlooked, but hugely encouraging story. The prospect of ultimately eradicating corrosive identity politics may be the best election news of all.

https://www.pottsmerc.com/opinion/jerry-shenk-election-2020-early-good-news/article_f027d400-22b3-11eb-a389-87003ded4ae7.html