60 years ago, Billboard #1 for the week of Nov. 12, 1962: Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - Big Girls Don t Cry 1962 https://youtu.be/DAgQIb77UhU

50 years ago, Billboard #1 for the week of Nov. 12, 1972: Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now https://youtu.be/NkwJ-g0iJ6w

"Trump can destroy the party whenever he wants, yet the party can’t destroy him without also risking its own crack-up.

Nor can Republicans assume that Trump can be easily dismissed. His $100 million war chest can sustain armies of grifters and right-wing media, promising that any contest for GOP primacy would be long and painful."

Was It Really All Just Trump’s Fault? https://www.thebulwark.com/was-it-really-all-just-trumps-fault/

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Questions for New Never Trumpers https://open.substack.com/pub/thetriad/p/questions-for-new-never-trumpers

Mass confusion is the result.

We are now in the Cruella De Vil phase of GOP politics--

Cruella: What kind of sycophant are you?
Frederick : Uh, what kind of sycophant would you like me to be?

Let's give a shout-out to whichever editor correctly knew that "data" was a plural noun, but then stipulate that the headline would have been better if rephrased using the word "facts." "Data have" is ugly and inelegant.

I agree with this, but with one huge caveat: I think abortion extremism was the decisive issue. Surely, the it helped the Democrats in many states, but it killed them in Florida, and hurt them in Georgia, Texas, and Ohio.

The Data Have Spoken: Abortion Was a Decisive Issue in the 2022 Midterms https://www.thebulwark.com/the-data-have-spoken-abortion-was-a-decisive-issue-in-the-2022-midterms/

However, if the GOP ends up with a majority of only a handful of votes, then power is handed to the few GOP representatives who will be willing to cross the aisle and vote with the Democrats, just as Manchin and Sinema wield power in the Senate.

About 140 GOP election deniers were elected to the House, last I heard. That puts them in the majority of the GOP caucus. If the GOP had a 20-30 majority in the House, their will would certainly prevail.

The reoccurring meme that if the GOP gets only a small majority in the House that it will be handing the power of the House over to Greene seems farfetched.