{"id":1734430,"date":"2022-11-11T03:17:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T08:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1734430"},"modified":"2022-11-11T03:17:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T08:17:45","slug":"4-realities-conservatives-must-swallow-in-the-wake-of-the-2022-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/4-realities-conservatives-must-swallow-in-the-wake-of-the-2022-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Realities Conservatives Must Swallow In The Wake Of The 2022 Midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F4-realities-conservatives-must-swallow-in-the-wake-of-the-2022-midterms%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1734430&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Unlike the left, the stunning under-performance of Republicans on Tuesday should not be an opportunity for screaming at the cosmos. It\u2019s a reality check, and the sooner we adapt to reality, the sooner we can be optimistic about the future.<\/p>\n<p>So what are the realities conservatives must face based on Tuesday\u2019s shock?\u00a0I see four things.<\/p>\n<p> Donald Trump Has Jumped the Shark <\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump was a great president who did conventional Republican things conservatives dreamed about for decades. He\u2019s absolutely responsible for 10,000 fewer babies being aborted due to his conservative appointments to the Supreme Court and their role in overturning <em>Roe v. Wade. <\/em>He kept us out of war. He kept Russia at bay. He brought up Chinese aggression as an issue. He kept North Korea silent. He fixed NAFTA. I could go on.<\/p>\n<p>But he will never win the presidency again, and the candidates he endorses do not do well. Given the fundamentals of this election cycle, the open seats in Pennsylvania, Georgia, New Hampshire, Arizona, and Nevada should have been easy wins. Instead, they were weighed down by the Trump name and the stupid Jan. 6 incident that everyone wants to forget about except Donald Trump and those who leverage his obsession with it into a leftist passion.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s recent putdowns of Gov. Ron DeSantis, dubbing him \u201cDeSanctimonious\u201d and telling him to back off a presidential run, were the last straw for me and many conservatives. We need to be done with him.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, I wrote an <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/11\/09\/5-reasons-conservatives-should-have-hope-for-the-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> in these pages comparing Trump\u2019s 2020 loss to Obi-Wan Kenobi\u2019s death, arguing his loss will make his movement more powerful than anyone can possibly imagine. I still believe that. He\u2019s brought new constituencies into the GOP. But a key implicit point of that argument is, Obi-Wan Kenobi <em>died<\/em>. He didn\u2019t get in the way of Luke Skywalker\u2019s (<em>ahem, DeSantis\u2019s, ahem!<\/em>) rise.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>\u2018Democrat\u2019 Is Shorthand for \u2018I Gotta Get Mine!\u2019<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The electorate has crossed a point of no return, shattering previous assumptions. Everyone predicted the fundamentals of the economy would determine harsh losses for Democrats. Yet here we are. A frighteningly close majority of voters don\u2019t care how massive government spending combined with strangling our oil production has led to economic decline.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, a sizeable part of the electorate has baked into it a transactional relationship with the Democrat brand that gives the party a reliable handicap regardless of what\u2019s happening in the real world. \u201cDemocrat\u201d is now shorthand for livelihood security, essentially for one\u2019s career in the bureaucracy or one\u2019s government entitlements.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Republican brand is more about principles and ideas that in the long run perform better in the aggregate. This is a hard sell among an electorate, especially among younger voters, who have not been trained to think critically about second- and third-order effects, for instance, with Biden\u2019s student loan bailout program.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans will not do well simply being against what Democrats are for. They will need to figure out a way to frame their goals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The electorate has crossed a point of no return, shattering previous assumptions conservatives had baked in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1178,"featured_media":1734433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1734430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1734433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}