Dear loser,
On behalf of all Americans who love democracy, I wish to sincerely thank you for the wreckage you’ve wrought on the party you purported to lead.
First of all, thank you for turning the U.S. Senate blue. That’s an historic feat. It looks like Georgia – Georgia! – will be sending a Black preacher and a 33-year-old Jewish dude to the chamber, and relegating Mitch McConnell to the minority. I didn’t think that was remotely possible, sir. I should’ve recognized that someone whose incompetence has helped kill 340,000 Americans was fully capable of killing his own party.
Rev. Rafael Warnock’s victory is clinched, and Jon Ossoff’s is on track. Granted, we all know that Stacey Abrams deserves enormous credit for winning two Senate races in a once-reliably red state with a history of minority vote suppression. I’m sure it galls you – to say the least – that you were outwitted by a Black woman. But give yourself some credit, too. It’s likely that she could not have done it without your narcissistic nonsense.
Sir, I’d like to share some observations from Brendan Buck, a former top aide to two House Republican speakers. Here’s what he said about you this morning: “What a political disaster Donald Trump is. Cost us the House (in 2018), loses the White House by a big margin, and now cost Republicans the Senate. Maybe not the kind of guy to keep building the party around.”
And here’s a tweet from Peter Wehner, a former aide to three Republican presidents. Addressing his fellow party members: “Democrats won the presidential race and both Senate races in Georgia. Soon they’ll control the presidency, the House & have de facto control of the Senate. Was blasting your moral principles/prostrating yourselves to Trump worth it, Republicans? Let me suggest the answer is No.”
So thank you, sir. Thank you for making Kamala Harris the tie-breaking vote in the Senate. Thank you for clipping Mitch’s wings. Thank you for making it far more likely that President Biden will get the Cabinet he wants and the judges he wants. Thank you for ensuring that progressive Senate bills will no longer be buried. Thank you for ensuring that the next chairman of the Senate Budget Committee will be…Bernie Sanders.
All this has happened not only because you triggered record backlash turnout among mobilized Georgians of color, but also because many white Georgia suburbanites who normally vote Republican stayed home or voted blue because they rightly loathe you.
Don’t just take my word for it. Here’s Josh Holmes, formerly Mitch McConnell’s chief of staff, reminding fellow Republicans that your nutcase message about a rigged election totally backfired: “Suburbs, my friends, the suburbs…We went from talking about jobs and the economy to QAnon election conspiracies in 4 short years and – as it turns out- (suburban voters) were listening!”
So thank you, sir, for making the Georgia elections all about yourself. Thank you for telling your MAGA saps that voting for the two incumbent Republicans would be a waste of time because the state’s electoral system was supposedly rigged against them like it was supposedly rigged against you. Thank you for inspiring an insipid online movement to boycott the races. Thank you for inspiring Sidney Powell, your tinfoil-hat attorney, to sabotage the GOP campaigns (Powell during a Georgia rally: “I would encourage all Georgians to make it known that you will not vote until your vote is secure”). Thank you for attacking the Republican governor (you called him a “fool” and a “clown”), sowing discord among local GOP leaders, and lying about the state election official you tried to bully. (Remember, last week, when you said it’s “disgusting” that Brad Raffensperger’s brother “Ron” “works for China”? Fact check: Brad’s brother isn’t in China, and his name isn’t Ron.)
And wow, the blind quotes savaging you are coming thick and fast today. One Republican strategist tells Politico: “Trump is the cause of this, lock, stock and barrel…When you’re relying on someone to win you a Senate race that also lost statewide eight weeks prior, you’re not in a position of strength.”
And a Georgia GOP operative said that you are “the Dems’ best base animator. Look at how high turnout was on their side compared to historical trends.” Indeed. It was inconceivable, before now, that the Georgia electorate would ever send to the Senate a Black preacher from Martin Luther King’s church. Until now, every single Georgia senator had been white – and many of them, like Richard Russell and Herman Talmadge, had been notorious racists. So kudos to you, sir. You helped Stacey expand and diversify the Georgia electorate, and for that I thank you.
Next up is today’s con d’etat clown show on Capitol Hill, as your last-ditch dolts try in vain, without a scintilla of empirical evidence, to contest Biden’s decisive Electoral College victory. Their authoritarian gesture – going to bat for a loser – looks even stupider now that you’ve coughed up the Senate. It’s no surprise they’re being hung out to dry the same way you stiffed your Atlantic City contractors.
Lindsey Graham, your golfing groupie (and soon to be ex-Judiciary chairman), was surely right back in May of 2016 when he tweeted, “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed…….and we will deserve it.” Well played, sir!