Kraushaar

  I've been writing a lot about Trump's electoral toxicity and how his defeat is going to crash the Republican Party-- losing them the Senate, dozens more House seats and even more dozens of state legislative seats, including flipped chambers. But how do we know? I mean it makes sense that what we see coming is an anti-red tsunami not just an anti-Trump tsunami and that voters are going to take out his enablers as well as him.

Just Beneath The Surface by Nancy OhanianLOL!I know I'm always complaining how Inside-the-Beltway political writers are overly cautious and weeks behind in their prognosticatin'. Well... National Journal's Josh Kraushaar surprised me this week: Prepare For A Biden Landslide.

Remember a couple of weeks ago when I was making fun of the professional prognosticators for rating Montana's Senate race a "lean Republican?" I predicted they would all be backing away from that foolishness by summer.

The Democratic Party establishment is conservative in the sense of defending and bolstering the status quo-- not as perniciously as the GOP, but perniciously enough. It is also incredibly corrupt-- no less so than the Republican Party.

Sunday showed that the early pandemic states are starting to level off. But the states where social distancing hasn't been taken seriously by state and local governments and lunkhead citizens, like the imbeciles in Oklahoma City, and where governors are racing to open up fast... that's where the focus of the pandemic is moving now:

The Dismantling Of American Democracy by Nancy OhanianAll these polls came out in the last few days showing both Bernie and Biden beating Trump in 2020 match-ups. Tuesday's Quinnipiac poll showed virtually everyone beating Trump-- Biden by 13, Bernie by 9, Harris by 8, Warren by 7, even McKensey Pete and Booker by 5 points each!

If you're looking for someone to counter Bernie's statement above, who could be better than professional moderate and NationalJournal political editor Josh Kraushaar? His Sunday column was another predictable warning that the Democrats better abandon all the popular policies that won them the House last November and go back to being a GOP-lite corporate policy... or else. He has evidence.

National Journal's Josh Kraushaar started the year very reticent about predicting a blue-- or, more accurately, an anti-red-- wave.

A YouGov poll for The Economist last week showed congressional approval at 8% and disapproval at 71%. Yeah, Congress is not popular. An overwhelming majority of Americans see Congress as part of the problem rather than part of the solution. They're right. And congressional leadership is especially loathed by most voters-- all the top leaders' favorability has been underwater in every poll this year.

Leading his party to doom and destructionBefore you get a political tsunami that wipes out your party, you get ripples-- entrenched swing state incumbents in the tough seats start announcing their retirements.