Stunner
Stunner Trump leads GOP off a cliff, claims no responsibility Dan Rather and Team Steady Nov 4 Texas Senator-elect James Talarico. Credit: Getty Images Call it a tsunami, or a blue-nami, an earthquake, a generational defeat, a massacre, or, as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suggested, “close to an extinction level event for Republicans.” However you want to characterize Republicans’ 2026 midterm defeat, it was a holistic drubbing of the Party and a rebuke of the man who leads it. And that man, not surprisingly, has somehow absolved himself of any responsibility for the rout, a repudiation that could cripple his party long after he’s gone. In the meantime, let’s remind ourselves that Trump is still president and will be for another two years. He remains dangerous, wielding many of the immense powers of a president. But he will no longer have at his back a pliant Congress. Democrats have wrested control of both houses of Congress from Republicans. As of this writing, Democrats hav...