WaPo Columnist Suggests Dems Losing Control of Congress ‘May Well Be the Only Path’ to Winning in 2024
Polls appear to show that Republicans are on track to flip at least one chamber of Congress in the 2022 midterm elections, which could significantly complicate President Joe Biden’s ability to pass his agenda. But Matt…
Polls appear to show that Republicans are on track to flip at least one chamber of Congress in the 2022 midterm elections, which could significantly complicate President Joe Biden’s ability to pass his agenda.
But Matt Bai, a columnist for The Washington Post, is suggesting that may not be a bad thing for Democrats. In fact, he argues it could be good for the party.
“If you’re a Democrat looking for reasons to be hopeful about your electoral prospects, then I’ve got one of those classic good news/bad news scenarios for you,” Bai wrote in a column. “The bad news — everyone always wants the bad news first — is that your party is heading for a world of hurt in November. Every poll can’t be wrong.”
He continued, “The good news is that getting blown out in 2022 may well be the only path you have to holding the White House in 2024.”
“I’m not saying the costs of a Republican takeover in November won’t be steep in the short run. These aren’t the conservative revolutionaries of 1994 or even tea-party types of 2010. This is the mutant-gene version of a Republican uprising, a full-on crazy-eyed dystopian movement of conspiracists and authoritarians,” Bai explained.
He went on:
“Brace yourself for no end of mindless investigations, assaults on the electoral system and nativist proposals — a virtual ‘peach tree dish’ for paranoia as governance, to quote Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) But everything we know about modern Politics