Politics Republicans’ Post-Midterms War Denialism Is an Exercise in Special Pleading Just because it wasn’t only the war doesn’t mean it wasn’t mainly the war. Republicans took a pounding on Tuesday that made past wave elections look like a mild drizzle by comparison.
Just whatever you do, don’t blame the Iran war. In a bizarre crashout in the early morning hours after the GOP’s midterm debacle, the radio commentator Erick Erickson likened blaming the war for the result to pretending the 2020 election was stolen.
That bold truth-teller Sen. Thom Tillis, the North Carolina Republican who slithered away rather than defend his Senate seat in a supposed act of defiance against President Donald Trump, also poured cold water on the idea. “Do you honestly believe, for example, respectfully, Mr.
Vice President, that we saw the departure of Hispanics over the war?” he asked on CNN the day after the seat he declined to defend fell to the Democrats by 20 points. “Give me a break.