{"id":39270,"date":"2023-09-21T12:03:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T17:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=39270"},"modified":"2023-09-21T12:05:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T17:05:01","slug":"the-subparty-of-freaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/09\/21\/the-subparty-of-freaks\/","title":{"rendered":"The (Sub)Party Of Freaks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aaron Blake of WaPo<\/strong><\/em> comments<\/a> on a not-unexpected result akin to those of previous run-ups to elections:<\/p>\n

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New Hampshire on Tuesday became the latest state in which Democrats over-performed in a special election \u2014 a trend that has\u00a0held very steady ever since\u00a0Roe\u00a0<\/i>was overturned<\/a> last summer.<\/p>\n

Democrat Hal Rafter won by 12 points<\/a>\u00a0in a state House district that went narrowly for\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0in 2020. The 12-point improvement on the 2020 margin is in line with Democrats\u2019 encouraging continued over-performances in special elections this year;\u00a0Daily Kos Elections<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0FiveThirtyEight data<\/a> on more than two dozen special elections show the party running an average of 7.6 points better than their 2020 margins \u2014 margins from a 2020 election that, it bears noting, were already good for Democrats \u2014 and double digits better than the normal partisan fundamentals.<\/p>\n

New Hampshire wasn\u2019t even the only state in which Democrats lodged a crucial win and an overperformance in a special election Tuesday. They also took back the majority in the Pennsylvania Capitol<\/a> by defeating a Trump-aligned candidate. That result was expected in a blue-leaning district, but Democrats again beat the fundamentals by around double digits.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

To illustrate the depths of Trumpian madness involved, here’s Rafter’s opponnent:<\/p>\n

He said supporters of abortion rights desire \u201cblood sacrifices to their god, Molech<\/a>.\u201d He also had a long history of anti-LGBTQ+ comments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>What it comes to is this: Tell a woman that if her pregnancy should turn deadly, she’ll simply be discarded by society, and you will alienate more than half of them. Substantially more than half of them<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t matter how deeply religious you may be, because being deeply religious doesn’t guarantee you’re right, it only impresses the gullible.<\/p>\n

But here’s the part Democrats shouldn’t ignore: Without Trump, without the crazed MAGA<\/strong>-heads running for office, winning nomination, and then bursting into fire, the Democrats would actually be in a substantial minority<\/em>.<\/p>\n

They really need to ask themselves if they’ve got a repulsive screwup of their own that’s alienating voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aaron Blake of WaPo comments on a not-unexpected result akin to those of previous run-ups to elections: New Hampshire on Tuesday became the latest state in which Democrats over-performed in a special election \u2014 a trend that has\u00a0held very steady ever since\u00a0Roe\u00a0was overturned last summer. Democrat Hal Rafter won by \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39274,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39270\/revisions\/39274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}