As GOP sticks with Donald Trump and his felony charges, Democrats keep winning elections

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

As GOP sticks with Donald Trump and his felony charges, Democrats keep winning elections
Progressive victories in Wisconsin and Chicago show a country moving forward while the now-indicted Trump is stuck in the past.

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Cable news networks were blaring Trump in court, Trump in a car and Trump at Mar-a-Lago whining about his legal problems. But in Wisconsin, voters were carrying Democratic-backed Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz to victory in the race for a state Supreme Court seat, giving liberals control of a court that has leaned conservative for 15 years.

In Chicago, Brandon Johnson, the more progressive of the two Democratic candidates in the city’s mayoral race, won. A notable difference in that race was Johnson’s opponent, Paul Vallas, focused much of his campaign on a tough law-and-order message often associated with Republicans. It didn’t work.

In last year’s midterm elections, Republicans dramatically underperformed as voters pushed back on the party’s attacks on abortion, voting and LGBTQ rights, as well as its ongoing support of Trump.

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If you start lining these developments up, it’s not hard to spot a trend.

Something's happening here. What it is ain't exactly ... hard to understand
After Protasiewicz’s sizable victory in Wisconsin, Ben Wikler, the state’s Democratic Party chair, tweeted: “It’s an earthquake. And you know what causes earthquakes? Tectonic shifts.”

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The go-to Republican scare tactics – Socialism is coming! Crime is rampant! The family is under attack! – aren’t working. And when the face of your party becomes the first former president ever indicted, the old “party of law and order” line falls a bit flat.

https://www.statesman.com/story/opinion/columnists/2023/04/05/trump-indictment-wisconsin-supreme-court-chicago-mayor-elections/11605002002/

[Skittles]

1. I think more people are catching on to the creeping fascism of the GOP

at least, that is what I hope

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Trump as the top of ticket and party head was not a family man choice

But GOP will figure that out eventually

[BComplex]

3. That's the only reason that all the news coverage of what the republicans are doing pleases me.

The more people hear about republicans' batshit crazy mess, the more afraid they are to vote for them.

[republianmushroom]

4. Look at the rest of the republicans, DeSantis, McCarthy, MTG, etc. , he is not better or no worst

than the rest of the party.