General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Just Stop! [View all]bigtree
(93,771 posts)...republican candidates are trash, and more in the open with their anti-American rhetoric and their corporate fealty as they work to take away things from Americans instead of offering anything at all on the issues voters say they care about.
They had this long run with Trump where they could imagine their slash and burn politics had some broad popularity, but they lost the last presidential election by so many votes they can't claim the support of anyone but insurrectionists, racists, bigots, and the impoverished rabble they've convinced are poor and destitute because someone who doesn't look like them took their money.
They still have to put up candidates who can run the Dem gauntlet of accountability for the Trump years where almost every republican behaved as if they'd conquered America. There's still payback to be had for all of that criminality and those abuses of office.
Moreover, Americans will be challenged to defend their right to actually place a vote and get it counted in the face of republican efforts to throw out ballots and registrations. These midterms will be a defiance to all of the anti-democratic efforts of the republicans. They won't take our votes away from us without a fight this fall, that basic act of voting our most powerful defiance.