Jack of Harts

The narrative for years now has been that Republicans are Fascist, Racist, Homophobic, conspiracy theorists, election deniers, deplorables, and insurrectionists. The narrative has been without an answer in the government and the mass media. But now the Republicans have a chance to change the narrative. They will be in charge of the House, and they can press for Congressional investigations. Which means they can put evidence into the record that can press their own narrative. They need to fight the Democrat narrative if they wish to have any chance of victory in the next election. Because narratives matter, and it is hard to get people to vote for you, when the narrative is always against you. So they have to make certain their narrative sees the light of day.

We had another election last week, and the expected person lost. It emphasizes the trends we saw on election night. One of those trends is that candidates matter. No matter how good your campaign or the movement that supports it, you must pick candidates that can make the electorate passionate about them. If you look at the close campaigns this season, it was almost always the candidate people could be passionate about who won. The astronaut. The pastor. The stroke victim bravely fighting on. Candidates matter. Yes, there are other important issues, but the vessel that carries those issues must be selected carefully, or the issues will lose.