RIGHT SPEAK: Republicans Are Allowing The Election To Be About Nothing: You should vote against socialism, open borders, and trans everything. But what are you voting for if you vote for Republicans?

Republicans Are Allowing The Election To Be About Nothing:

You should vote against socialism, open borders, and trans everything. But what are you voting for if you vote for Republicans?

It’s late. The time for defining the choice is passing in a hurry. Election Day is coming, and some people have already voted. In several states, early voting began on September 18, and at least a few ballots are already in. But what are we voting for? This is where it gets awkward.
The Senate race in Delaware is probably pretty meaningless, and there’s not much reason to believe that Chris Coons is losing sleep over it. But go spend a few minutes at the campaign website of Dr. Mike Katz, the Republican who’s running against Coons. This is from the front page:

Katz believes in policies that produce results. In case you were wondering, he’s for affordability and economic growth. He doesn’t want to deliver talking points, he wants to deliver real solutions. He believes in having discipline. He is not for the special interests.

Several decades ago, the supermarket chain Ralph’s sold generic groceries that were just labeled with the name of the product: BEER, for example, or COFFEE, a word or two on a white package with a stripe.
In the 1980s, a Southern California grocery chain called Ralphs introduced an entire line of generic products called Plain Wrap, which simply had the name of the product in medium blue against a white package. https://t.co/3zYpGr9b18
— George Kaplan (@GeorgeKaplan8) March 15, 2023

That’s apparently what we’re doing this year, and we should probably be paying royalties to Ralph’s for the idea. The website of the Senate Republican Campaign Committee currently appears in black and white with a few little dashes of red at the top and bottom, like they were worried about paying a printshop for extra ink:

If you were an early adopter of dialup AOL, you remember when websites looked like this. It was about thirty years ago.

The Republican strategy for the midterms is that they’re framing this one as a contrast election: crazy people versus normals, recognizably human Americans versus weirdo socialists and the bizarre space alien creature from Texas who thinks Jesus wants you to trans your kids. In his midterm convention, Trump said that “we went through four years of embarrassment, hurt, harm, sickness, filth. It was bad.” So we’re voting in 2026 to still not go back to the Biden years.

All of that is just fine, as far as it goes. It’s true, and you should vote against socialism, open borders, and trans everything. But what are you voting for if you vote for Republicans? Trump has framed the midterms as a referendum on his presidency: “Pretend I’m on the ballot.” --->READ MORE HERE