So in the past nearly year and seven months of Democrats holding the House and the Senate, we’ve gotten:

- The American Rescue Plan
- The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
- Bipartisan Safer Communities Act of 2022
- The PACT Act
- Chips Bill
- Inflation Reduction Act

All this productivity in terms of important legislation, half of it bipartisan, leads me to a question I’ve never gotten an answer to:

What would the Republicans do I’d they were in control of Congress? Specifically?

Don’t give me meaningless phrases like “stop wokeness.” What specifically would they do?

Ask them. They can’t tell you.

What are their official policies? They don’t have any. They no longer have a party platform.

They’ve had a long time now to complain about everything that the Democrats do and think about what they would do if they take over Congress.

But they haven’t used it. They have nothing. No ideas. No policies. No plans.

Except …

Kevin McCarthy promises that if the GOP takes the House, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar, who both spoke at white supremacist conferences this year, will not only get their committee assignments back but will get better ones. He promised.

Senator Rick Scott, whose job it is to make sure that the Republicans win the Senate, put out a written plan - the only one I know of by Republicans - promising that everyone will pay taxes. Which presumably includes seniors with little to no income. Who’d get a tax increase.

Senator Ron Johnson has talked about changing Social Security and Medicare so that it would have to be approved ongoingly on an annual basis.

But what would they do to HELP Americans?

I don’t know.
You don’t know.
They don’t know.

Think about Obamacare. The Republicans went on a ten year crusade to repeal and replace it.

Replace it with WHAT?

They never came up with anything. Not even after ten years.

They’re not, as a group, really into doing anything. Not their thing.

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Some people in this country are sincerely confused to hear people talk about “white supremacy” in conjunction with politics in America today. At the same time, a lot of people, both openly and in private, have consternation about changing demographics in America.

Let me explain.

In 1870, right after the Civil War, the US Census showed that there were six states in which African Americans made up more than 45% of the state population - South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, Alabama and Georgia. The region we call the “Deep South” plus Florida.

Ten years prior, many of these human beings were considered to be the legal property of other human beings. And then came the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the US Constitution. Suddenly, these former slaves were citizens. And the men could VOTE.

Suddenly, a lot of whites in these southern states had the fear that they were now either in the minority or at least not in a strong plurality. Their former subjects were now recognized as their equals according to the text of the US Constitution.

And they freaked out.

TheValuesVoter
@TheValuesVoter

I did some comparisons on different aspects of how America is doing right now compared to how it was doing at this time four years ago.

I put the links to the sources of information here so you can check for yourself.

1) Unemployment, the Deficit and the Debt

TheValuesVoter
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@MikeSington Looking at the tape:
https://t.co/c8rNEc0iSq

0:05 - Members of Congress evacuating from the mob
0:18 - First member of mob shatters the glass in the door separating the mob from the fleeing Members of Congress.
0:34 - Mob begins chanting "BREAK IT DOWN!"

1:36 - Officers guarding the door move out of the way, presumably to clear the way for the armed officers who are the last line of defense behind the door.
1:43 - Mob begins more aggressively attacking the damaged glass on the door (BTW, they need some better glass!)

1:58 - Member of mob shouts and continues shouting "THERE'S A GUN!" The gun is clearly visible at this point in the frame. Anyone near the door looking inside would have seen a gun pointed in their direction.

2:11 - 13 seconds after the mob started shouting "THERE'S A GUN!", referring to the gun pointed at them, Ms. Babbitt climbs up through the damaged glass of the right side door.

2:15 - Ms. Babbitt is shot.

Multiple members of the mob were shouting "THERE'S A GUN!" They obviously knew that there were armed officers, weapons drawn, on the other side of the door they were in the process of breaking down, behind which Members of Congress were sheltering in fear.

TheValuesVoter
@TheValuesVoter

The more whiny Trump cries, whines and lies about the election, the more I’ll show research that shows that he lost and exactly why he lost.

Note to Trump supporters asking “why do you keep bringing him up?” Easy answer: he won’t shut his lying pie hole.

This is HOW he lost.

Okay, so here is a more complete rundown of how the last three Presidential Elections went down. And some more mythbusting of Trump's lies about the 2020 Election. https://t.co/3M9c79wHop pic.twitter.com/eRNRKQZzzB
— TheValuesVoter (@TheValuesVoter) May 1, 2021

And this is HOW he lost.

He lost a lot of the white voters, college educated voters and independents who supported him in 2016.

So here, in charts and tables, are the exit polls for the five states that flipped in the 2020 election.

Arizona - the trend of the state (clearly trending toward the Dems after 2012) and the groups Trump improved/declined with between 2016, when he won and 2020, when he lost. pic.twitter.com/ZxUXyui83R
— TheValuesVoter (@TheValuesVoter) May 15, 2021

In 2016, Donald Trump won Independents in every one of the six states that he flipped from blue to red.

In 2020, Donald Trump lost Independents in every one of the five states that Joe Biden flipped from red to blue.

Is it somehow strange that Trump lost the election? No. It would have been much stranger had Trump managed to win the election.

No one as consistently unpopular as him has ever been re-elected. Like ever.