The interwebs started exploding last night with election results from two state legislative districts in Florida. Normally, races like that would fly farther under the radar, but one involved the house district that's home to Benedict Donald's Temu Greenbrier. Long story short: Trump, Moose & Squirrel, and Lurch are all represented in Tallahassee now by a Democrat. (And PS: They all voted by mail.)
On the other side of the state, another Democrat upset a creepy Republican woman with tortoiseshell glasses and a penchant for dressing like something out of Laura Ashley. In spite of that, she was seen as a "rising star" in GOP circles, had oodles of money, and was predicted as late as Monday to have a 95 percent chance of victory. Instead, she was beaten by an electrician who had a lot of union support. Sweet!
There's something happening here. What it is ain't exactly clear.
Or maybe it is.
And maybe the corporate news media just keeps missing the boat. We still can't surf the headlines these days without seeing some version of "Democrats in disarray" or "Democrats in despair." But, but, but: We keep flipping these GOP state seats — 30 since the start of 2025. (Republicans: Zero.) It's enough to make the MSM start speculating not only about the US House this November, but also the US Senate. But how is that possible? They keep telling us that we have no message, and nobody likes us. Yet we keep winning.
Here's an answer: The pundits, of whom we are all heartily sick, continue to think 2026 is an election between two choices: unpopular Republicans versus unpopular Democrats. They just can't get past the Democrats' negatives — but that's short-sighted. To the non-pundit, non-MAGA universe, 2026 is a choice between autocracy at its best (and fascism at its worst) versus an imperfect party committed to the Constitutional order. So imperfect wins just about every time.
Since the Trumpsters have the media on their enemies list — and since the heads of anyone in the press will be on Donald's chopping block if he can consolidate power — we don't understand why they don't report it that way. Maybe the No Kings rallies on Saturday will wake them up? Let's hope. Meanwhile, we cats HISS and PURR at the same time.
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