Republicans are increasingly anxious about a midterms wipeout

[Anonymous]

Are Republicans realizing that governing like ketamine fueled sociopaths may not be popular with the voting populace?

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/02/republicans-midterm-backlash-fears-030290
Republicans are increasingly anxious about a midterms wipeout.

After Tuesday night’s elections, Republicans are starting to worry that the shock and awe of President Donald Trump’s second term will haunt them in the 2026 midterms.

Inside the GOP, there is a growing sense that the party should get back to basics and focus on the pocketbook issues that many voters sent them to Washington to address. There’s internal disagreement about the effects of Trump’s new tariffs announced on Wednesday. Some say they will ultimately lead to reviving American manufacturing — but even many of the president’s allies fear they could drive up prices and potentially crash the economy.

The Republican anxiety comes in the wake of a landslide defeat in a Wisconsin Supreme Court race and double-digit underperformance in two Florida special elections. Both reverberated across the party on Wednesday, as some Republican elected officials and strategists called for Trump and his billionaire adviser Elon Musk to adopt a more cautious approach to governing.

[Anonymous]

Good. They should be anxious and I say that as a Democrat who predicted Trump’s win months before Biden resigned.

[Anonymous]

It's inevitable one way or the other. The Trump administration doesn't care. This is why they're going full speed. They will ignore the Congress anyway.

[Anonymous]

Good. They should be. Most of them, I hope, understand how tariffs work, and know what the impact of multiple tariffs will be like for their constituents. Most of them, I hope, understand how many of their constituents have benefited from and rely on programs and government programs that are getting axed. Most of them understand that at least some of their constituents understand that the quality of their lives will now deteriorate sharply thanks to the way their representatives are voting. Republicans are making choices that have consequences.

[Anonymous]

They should be worried—Trump is going to turn red states blue. Purple states are already there. They need to get off their knees.

[Anonymous]

Turns out even red states like to keep their jobs, benefit programs, and 401k balances.

[Anonymous]

I wish they'd be worried about the actual damage being done now instead of their damned political chances. Could someone care about the US for once? And not their own personal power?

[Anonymous]

What’s up with the reveals and orchestrated panic? As a style? Auto makers and every other business doesn’t care for unnecessary scenario planning. Small businesses are forgotten.

The Canadians are deeply angry at their neighbors (wait what? that definitely was not part of the campaign).

[Anonymous]

Let’s see if Congress finds their balls. I don’t see that happening, but you’re welcome to be hopeful.

[Anonymous]

If they are actually concerned, they could pass legislation to stop all the madness. I bet they won’t do it

[Anonymous]

They should be worried. Their careers are toast, and the tribunal will hold them responsible.

[Anonymous]

Let’s hope that it haunts them forever. They sh-t on our WWII allies. We’ve sided with authoritarian loser Russia. I will shout this from the rooftops until I’m dead. This traitor party needs to die.

[Anonymous]

We are the globe’s enemy #1:

“Trump's tariffs carry the risk of destroying the global free trade order the United States itself has spear-headed since the Second World War," said Takahide Kiuchi, executive economist at Nomura Research Institute.

AND

"I see it as a drift of the U.S. and global economy towards worse performance, more uncertainty and possibly heading towards something we could call a global recession," said Antonio Fatas, macroeconomist at the INSEAD business school in France.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let’s hope that it haunts them forever. They sh-t on our WWII allies. We’ve sided with authoritarian loser Russia. I will shout this from the rooftops until I’m dead. This traitor party needs to die.

+1 “republican” needs to be a curse. Let future generations remember today’s Republicans like the world remembers neville chamberlain. Feckless and weak, betraying all principle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They should be worried—Trump is going to turn red states blue. Purple states are already there. They need to get off their knees.

Name one red state that will turn blue in the next two years.