The Stupid Party Again?

The Republican Party has been called "the Stupid Party" for at least a decade, and it looks like they're earning another couple years' possession of that title.

...Beyond the empirical evidence showing that key economic factors are reversing course and thus becoming useless as campaign attack points, the fact of the matter remains that economic talking points are, quite simply, snooze-inducing. In this new era of culture war-driven politics, where personalities supersede policies, and heart-wrenching social issues are far more captivating than the policy wonk whiteboard presentations often seen in D.C. think tanks or on Fox News, nitpicking over fiscal policies or making a crusade out of temporary economic woes are strategies that are doomed to fail.

It was this economics-focused GOP that pushed so heavily for Molinaro in New York....

And Molinaro lost, in an R+3 District.

What actually wins for Pubbies?

You could ask Youngkin, or the dozens of conservatives who won Florida school-board slots last week.

...Unlike the national GOP that failed miserably in the New York election, the Florida GOP—led by Governor Ron DeSantis—has kept the campaign focus where it should be: on hot-button cultural and social issues that get the voters’ collective blood boiling. Economic issues will bring out the same voters who haven’t produced majorities for years. But these issues can produce a broad coalition of voters who otherwise would not turn out for conservative candidates.

The words that I wrote almost one year ago remain more relevant today than ever before: If the Republican Party and its candidates continue hammering cultural issues the way they did in the Virginia elections, following the example set by President Trump, then they will have an ironclad campaign strategy that will carry them to victory....

But following Trump's path?  McConnell and the rest of the (R) Dummie Funnies in DC and Wisconsin would rather lose for 100 years than admit Trump was right.

Unfortunately, it won't take 100 years to turn this country into another Third World shithole.