Just Who Exactly Lost On Election Day 2017?

You’ve read my previous article on this topic. I focused mostly on the Democrat winner of the election and how the Left thinks that this is a major push against the President and his policies and agenda.
 
I also explained how that is not the case, but I’ll explain that in greater detail in this article.
 
I usually answer a title question later in the article, but in this case, I shall begin the article with the answer and explain why my answer is correct as we go along, with the help of a Breitbart article I’ve recently read.
 
Now, who exactly lost on Election Day 2017? Well, the easiest answer would be “Republicans.” But that’s only half right. Yes, Democrats won in Virginia, New Jersey and New York. Even a Transgender “woman” defeated the Republican incumbent in Virginia, which goes to show just how Leftist they are turning.
 
But why do I say that the answer is only half right? Because the actual loser of the elections is the Republican Establishment, not Republicans as a whole.
 
Ed Gillespie ran a campaign that didn’t embrace Trump or his policies until it was too late. And by that point, embracing such policies seemed insincere and like he was only doing it for the votes – which he was.
 
And so, Breitbart published an article titled: “What GOP Must Learn From The 12 Reasons Virginia Went Democrat In 2017.”
 
According to Breitbart, the 12 reasons Virginia went Democrat are:

1. “Historical pattern: past five presidents, Virginia goes the other way.” They explain that, historically, Virginia has voted for the opposing party to the President. To me, this is not really all that relevant, nor is it something that the GOP needs to learn from, mostly because this is a trend that can easily be broken.​
2. Virginia is an indigo state – in reality, two states.” They explain that Virginia has gone from being a red state to being a purple state to being somewhere between blue and purple. In other words, they’re getting more and more liberal as time goes on. Republicans can break this trend as well, just not as easily.  
3. "Targeting the swamp.” They explain that Virginia (particularly Northern Virginia) is closer to being part of the “swamp” Trump wants to drain, and so, the people living there will do what they can to push back against Trump and his policies. In other words, this is likely the largest reason the state is getting more and more Leftist. 
4. “Growth of the federal government masked Virginia Democrats’ terrible mismanagement of Virginia’s economy.” They explain that the federal government was growing and growing and spending more and more money. As they explain it: “… trillions of dollars in federal spending has included billions spilling over into Virginia…” In other words, Virginia was getting subsidized. It wasn’t thriving. 
5. “Felon voters.” This one is rather self-explanatory. Felons, when given the chance, tend to vote Democrat. Same as illegal immigrants and anyone the Democrat party plays Santa Claus for. They shouldn’t have the right to vote, but in 2015, Democrat Governor Terry McAuliffe granted mass amnesty to over 200,000 convicted felons, an act that was unconstitutional, but which went unpunished. 
6. “Gillespie ran on Bush issues, with Bush style.” Here, they explain that Gillespie ran on issues that matter but are not priorities. As the article explains: “Generic calls for economic growth and job creation through cutting taxes and regulations, improving education through teacher pay hikes, and safer neighborhoods through supporting law enforcement in feel-good tone are worthwhile issues, but do not carry the day anymore.” In other words, those were issues to prioritize before Obama’s destructive presidency, not after. 
7. “GOP voters noticed Gillespie did not embrace Trump, or Trumpism.” This is perhaps the biggest takeaway from the GOP’s losses on Election Day 2017. According to the article: “Republican voters strongly support the president, and were turned off by the fact that Gillespie kept President Trump at arm’s-length.” In other words, the fact that Gillespie was a GOP Establishment candidate who appeared to be a Never Trumper is what doomed him. 
8. “Gillespie’s raising a couple Trump issues was too little, too late.” Like I said before, Gillespie tried being a bit more like Trump close to the end, but it came off as insincere. We all knew it was only for the votes, and that if he were elected Governor, he would’ve gone back to his Establishment ways.
9. "Northam adopted Trump positions.” Ok, this may be a bit of an exaggeration from Breitbart. While Northam said that he was against sanctuary cities, as I told you in the previous article, he’s still very much a Democrat. 
10. “Republicans lost even in red states on November 7.” Breitbart explains this one as “natural pushback against any new president,” but I don’t quite think that’s it. To their credit, they do immediately follow that sentence with: “but there was much more…”, which segues into the following point, but still. I don’t think it’s pushback against a new president. It’s pushback against the Republican Party. Trump voters didn’t show up to vote for Gillespie because Gillespie was just another Democrat in Republican clothing.
11. "Democrats are angry, but Republicans are not happy.” They explain this one with: “Democrats have mobilized against President Trump’s agenda, but Republican voters do not match [Democrats’ enthusiasm] with positive energy, because Republicans in the U.S. House and Senate have failed to pass legislation enacting that agenda.” Let me rephrase the point. Democrats are passionately against Trump, but Republican voters are not happy with the GOP Establishment. We’re more than happy with Trump being President, and we will more than happily vote for people who want to Make America Great Again. We’re only unhappy with people who will either do nothing or stand in the way. 
12. “Republicans have not delivered on the Trump MAGA Agenda that Americans voted for.” This is really more of a continuation of the previous point. Like I said, we Trump voters are not Republicans. We won’t vote for Republicans. We’ll vote for pro-America and pro-Trump people. People who put the country’s needs ahead of the Washington Establishment’s. 

The article also covers three reasons why all is not lost for the GOP, saying that “The Left is already overreaching… Most Democrats’ 2018 and 2020 candidates will not resemble Northam” and that “Republicans might be turning the corner.”
 
But that’s where they’re wrong. All IS lost for the GOP. For a long time now (since long before Trump was even President), I had one concise thought in my mind about the Republican Party: They will never win another election again if their candidate is Establishment. And looking back, I know I was right then, just as much as I am now. After 8 years of Obama, and just one year of Trump, we can see the Establishment for who they are. They pretended to fight for what Americans want, “trying” to repeal Obamacare, knowing that Obama would veto it every time. And now, they have the votes and a President who will sign the same bills they wanted when Obama was President and they just don’t want to do it.
 
More than that, they’re not even pretending to be on Americans’ side anymore. They are proudly and unabashedly against Trump and his agenda. They will announce ahead of time their plans to kill any effort to repeal Obamacare in any way, any effort to bring about good tax reform and just about any effort that would Make America Great Again. Why? Because they HATE America just as much as the Left does. They don’t want to Make America Great Again. They want to Make America THEIRS Again.
 
They want America to belong to the Washington Establishment again. To the Elites in Washington again.
 
They. Want. To. Be. Kings.
 
Any effort to Make America Great Again will be halted and killed by the Establishment. Do you want to know why I wasn’t sad or annoyed that Democrats won November 7? Because they were going to win no matter what. Their opposition was nothing more than a charade. They had not true opposition.
 
Obama had no true opposition in 2008 or 2012. McCain is an Establishment lifer. An elite among elites. The head of the Republican effort to impede Trump. Romney is less talked about only because he isn’t in the spotlight as much as McCain. They were both more than ok with Obama winning. They were both HOPING that Hillary would win.
 
It’s not that they’re spineless. It’s not that they don’t have guts. It’s that they’re evil. They have hatred and evil in their hearts. They put on a show in front of people, pretending they’re opposing the Democrats and promising the American people that they will fight their hardest to repeal Obamacare, smiling as they say those things – not because they’re sincere, but because they’re devious. They smile because they know that they’re tricking people – deceiving them.
 
The Breitbart article ends with: “… it is possible that enough politicians are figuring out that the MAGA agenda… may be the key to their success in 2018 and 2020.” That’s certainly something to take away from the Republicans’ losses. That people running for office should embrace the MAGA agenda. But Establishment Republicans would rather lose to Democrats (other Establishment politicians) than allow Trump to win any more than he already has.
 
Come 2018, it’s entirely likely that we’ll begin to see the Republican Party being destroyed. Not because Democrats will defeat them, but because actual pro-Trump and pro-America people will defeat them.
 
As voters, we’ll do our best to Make America Great Again, and that includes voting for people who’ll strive to do that.
 
The draining of the swamp has only just begun.
 
Luke 21:19
“By your endurance you will gain your lives.”
 
Author: Freddie Marinelli.