Trashing Tropes

By Miss Kubelik

We cats feel like the nation is at an inflection point. Not just with COVID, although that's playing a huge role. We think that maybe we're at the point where the "The Incumbent President's Party Always Loses Seats In Midterm Elections" trope might not apply in 2022.

The Delta variant has been so scary, and the Republicans are behaving so badly — not just throwing tantrums over masks, but rooting against Americans in the Olympics and excusing insurrectionists — that next year's midterms could see Democrats gaining seats: in Congress, in gubernatorial races, and in state legislatures.

Why? Well, first because we have some good candidates who are already running. (Check out Abby Finkenauer in Iowa.) But second, it's also because despite the attention paid to nutcases like Jim Jordan, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, the My Pillow guy, Tucker Carlson, and yes, Donald Trump, we think that most Americans are watching all this, hearing our eminently sensible President, and still thinking, yeah — we'll take the reasonableness over the crazy.

(It would help if the media would quit giving the idiots so much airtime, but we still have faith in most folks' judgment. They're just not getting the headlines, is all.)

Besides, if Trump is right, and he really won the 2020 election, 2022 would mark his sixth year in office. And incumbent Presidents' parties always lose seats in their sixth years. So there! We cats PURR.