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On Tuesday night we saw one of the most historic elections in modern history. A blue tsunami that, despite what the polls predicted, flipped seven Senate seats, at least 24 House districts, five governorships, and twelve state legislative chambers. Texas turned entirely blue—the coveted Senate seat was easily taken by James Talarico, and the Governor’s mansion was claimed by Gina Hinojosa from Greg Abbott, who has owned the seat for 11 years. In the Kansas Senate election, a seat that has been reliably red for the past 94 years turned blue as well—flipped by Adam Hamilton in a five-point victory. North and South Carolina were taken by Democrats in spite of the fact that President Trump endorsed both of the Republican candidates (including Darlene Graham, Lindsey Graham’s sister). Even Ohio, the Vice President’s home state, couldn’t remain red. Both the Senate and Governor races went to the Democrats.
It’s true: the more you look into the numbers, the worse the night gets. Young men shifted almost 40 points toward Democrats even though, in 2024, the same cohort voted 23 points more in favor of Trump and Republicans. The list goes on and on into different demographics that entirely flipped against Trump and the MAGA movement. It was, for lack of a better term, a bloodbath. And several major questions have risen out of the pool of MAGA blood into the mainstream—foremost among them is simply… what now?
2024 was the biggest and most effective political coalition in the history of this country. Trump won in a landslide victory against, albeit an incompetent opponent, Kamala Harris and the $1 billion Democratic machine. It seemed at the time that the neocon agenda was over and that the liberal regime was ended. A new age of American politics had begun, and President Trump would lead us into this new world of politics by undoing the decades-long obsession with foreign wars and global policing. America would, under its new leadership, focus on American interests before all other interests. This all proved, in the past two years, to be a lie. Trump and his administration were never interested in the American people and their concerns. This is provable in many ways—but none are so clear as both the Iranian war he allowed us to be involved in and the fact that Robert F. Kennedy, the head of HHS, never even once attempted to pull vaccines off the market like he promised to do.
A lot of people are wondering why Trump and his administration were so unwilling to do what they promised. What made him so confident that he could disregard his American voters and still maintain power? It’s really not a difficult question to answer: Trump, like his boomer generation, believes that politics is a game of optics and design. A game of illusions and theatrics meant to hypnotize Americans into shoveling their freedoms over to federal bureaucrats and narcissists while cramming lies down their throats from legacy media. It’s that simple. To Trump and the boomers, politics is a game of ultimate power and control—and for over 50 years, it’s operated exactly how they wanted it to. Americans sat down every night and watched the performative theater on FOX News, CNN, MSNBC, and the like—they would wake up and read their fantasy novels in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and others and would never question the narrative. They blindly and obediently believed every word that came out of the mouths of the sock puppets on TV.
The entire thing was a charade. And they were convinced that it would last forever—that they had a grip on the American imagination and that they could do whatever they wanted to their psychological slaves. War in Korea? No problem. War in Vietnam? Go ahead. War in Iraq? Pull the trigger. Murdering babies? Of course! And the boomers ate it up because the puppet on TV told them to. Because the “experts” at Newsweek said the “science” had been settled—it’s actually really good for the baby, scientifically, to be dismantled in their mother’s womb! It’s seriously necessary that we bomb the living daylights out of Iraq and Iran—they’re building a nuclear bomb to use on YOU! So just shut up and obey the experts. And multiple generations did. Without question and without thought. They were obedient to their gods.
But then the internet came along and, to Washington’s surprise, began to disrupt their perfect dystopian control. People—everyday Americans—began expressing their opinions in ways that were threatening to the elites. They started speaking their own minds and began discussing ideas without restraint. For a while, the politicians and news pundits didn’t care much. They were (and maybe still are) convinced that the internet was a place for conspiracies and freaks. They never anticipated that people would abandon the legacy media and start reading sources who weren’t bought and paid for by Big Pharma. And in 2024, the Trump campaign used the internet to its advantage. He went on Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, Theo Von, and many other big podcasts, and his team used X to their advantage—generating millions and millions of viewers through Turning Point and Charlie Kirk.
And because they were willing to take on the new media and utilize it so well, many people thought that this was a foreshadowing of the coming administration—that Trump would tear the shackles of performative politics off as he did with the shackles of legacy media and actually bring change to the White House. Of course, as we know now, he didn’t shake the shackles of performative politics. He simply thought that you could shift the focus from legacy media to social media and that the same effect could be had. Hence the “Epstein files release” in which Trump brought in a bunch of internet influencers and gave them binders full of “top secret” information about Epstein that all ended up really being information we had all already seen. But in the 90s, people would have loved that if they saw that on TV. Those influencers would have been called “Epstein Experts” for the rest of their lives, and people would have thought that the pedophile case had been settled. But it didn’t work today since social media and the internet don’t allow for it. Everyone knew that whole charade was nonsense the minute it happened.
The idea here is simple: the new age of politics is going to require that politicians do exactly what they say they’re going to do in their campaigns. Legacy media and Washington theater are not tolerated anymore. People are watching closely and picking apart every word and action of their politicians—as they should. They’re demanding that those they vote in work in the interest of the American people. And anything less than that will be punished. As G.K. Chesterton said, “What we should try to do is make politics as local as possible. Keep the politicians near enough to kick them”—it’s what our whole publication is predicated on.
Will the boomers learn? Will the Republicans learn? No, they won’t. They never have, and I don’t expect they will now. They will all be perfectly content bringing their parties down with them in the coming years. The Republicans are obsolete and dead. The path forward is a new party with America First candidates.
