I don’t think it was a sign that the Dems will breeze to control in ‘26 or some historical moment, but it was certainly one-sided enough to lead me to question if Jones winning his race is suggestive of the entire populace endorsing his views and being blood-thirsty ghouls who want to murder all the conservatives.
Second ('Third') Trump Presidency Thread
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This logic actually kind of invalidates the right’s own argument that people are leaving blue states in droves specifically because their policies are so obviously bad for all residents. If it’s just a bunch of conservatives fleeing to states that align with them politically, the population shift doesn’t actually say as much about the efficacy of left-wing policies, just the political leanings of the people who left.
So say the reliable conservatives headed to Florida to vote for Ron DeSantis instead of the Republican candidates in blue states. I guess my point is it says nothing about the overall national popularity of the Republican Party increasing or Democratic Party decreasing, just that Republicans are segregating themselves. In the context of why RDS was bringing it up after the election last night, it’s functionally pointless unless they also outnumber blue voters nationally.
I can’t help but also question the political strategy of making infrastructure in blue states worse. There aren’t a *ton* of red districts in these states, but there’s not zero. Pulling a bunch of federal funding because of the way the state voted as a whole seems like it could have electoral consequences.