The Democrats continue to pile up surprises, and the goats are GOP is running scared. The news is courtesy conservative pundit Erick Erickson, who can’t seem to figure out he’s allied with fourth-raters, wealth idolators and prosperity church cult members: Democrats won a special election in Georgia’s District 121 to the Georgia House of Representatives.
A year ago, Republican Marcus Wiedower won the seat with a margin of 22.2 points, beating Democrat Eric Gisler. He resigned in October 25th for a “business opportunity,” and so a special election was called. Mr Gisler went for another bite of the apple, and this time he beat Mack Guest IV, by 1.8 points – although comparing actual vote counts, Gisler received only 5,873 votes in winning the special election, compared to 12,567 in losing the general election. It wasn’t a popular affair.
Still, Mr Guest, in his first run for office, suffered a bigger slide in votes for the Republicans. He may simply be a bad politico.
But Erickson is reading this as a harbinger of disaster:
Republicans are simply not showing up.
Now, we can all go through the litany of excuses both sides use in these special elections. But the pattern is consistent from Mississippi to Miami to Georgia to New York — Republicans are not motivated to show up.
And why should they be?
On the day the Justice Department arrested several men for trying to smuggle NVIDIA chips into China, the President announced the United States would permit NVIDIA to sell their advanced graphics processing units to China. The United States, by most estimates, right now has a compute advantage over China of 32 to 1. Giving China these chips will reduce the advantage to 1.3 to 1.
And a few other plaints that can be plausibly traced to the President’s avaricious nature. A candidate-cum-President of whom he ignored his chronic mendacity. I don’t have a lot of sympathy, except that I live here, too, and treachery to the Chinese will hurt me as well.
The 2026 election, now sitting on a doorstep near you, should be quite interesting – whether or not it’s held.
