Election night 2023 was a GOP disaster, and Fox News is pissed—killing off Youngkin’s candidacy before it existed and telling Republicans to set aside their abortion fixation.

A year after promising viewers a “red tsunami” in the 2022 midterms, only to be left with egg on their faces after the GOP drastically underperformed, Fox News was once again wondering what went wrong after Democrats romped to victory in statewide elections on Tuesday night.

Despite recent polls showing President Joe Biden deeply underwater with voters and even losing to Donald Trump in several battleground states, the Democratic incumbent governor easily won victory over his MAGA-endorsed opponent in deep-red Kentucky. And over in Ohio, a state Trump won by eight points in 2020, voters overwhelmingly passed an amendment ensuring access to abortion care in the state’s constitution.

The continued drag that undoing Roe v. Wade has had on the GOP was especially apparent in Virginia, where Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin had promised to implement a 15-week abortion ban if the GOP was able to gain unified control over the state’s General Assembly. Instead, not only were Youngkin’s hopes of a Republican sweep dashed, but the Democrats now control both chambers.

  • whofearsthenight@lemm.eeEnglish
    57·
    3 years ago

    I have a feeling you “aged in to conservatism” because that’s when you finally had money and humans are generally shit when it comes to “fuck you I got mine” but speaking as a millennial, that’s just not happening. My generation’s retirement plan is to die at our desks hopefully in a way that creates a lot of work for our bosses. Although on the less cynical side of things, I also tend to think that generally people are becoming more tolerant over time.

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
      19·
      3 years ago

      For the most part I have aged into liberalism. Older I get and the more shit I have seen.

      Before: What do you mean institutional racism is a thing? I am not racist, no one I know is racist. Oh sure there are skinheads, but they are in jail. Since I don’t see it, it must not be there.

      Now: I just saw my friend who is black get treated like he was a dangerous criminal because of the crime of walking.

      Stuff like that for example. I am doing well, I got mine. I want everyone else to get there’s as well.

        • Serinus@lemmy.world
          9·
          3 years ago

          It’s kind of amazing how much the military still leans right after all the Trump shit.

          The draft dodging, the incredible disrespect for the military, the obscene bullshit like the hurricane marker incident, the dictator worship, the subservience to Putin, and of course the coup. I would think military people would be better at recognizing incompetence at least.

        • beebarfbadger@lemmy.world
          2·
          3 years ago

          the notion of the free market policing itself is a laughable pipe dream (reality check for pretty much any Libertarian proposal: “What would telecoms do with this proposed power?”)

          Ah, the good old tango of

          "Yeah, sure, we could do That Thing with the proposed powers, but we’d NEVER EVER do That Thing, we’re not evil after all. We just ABSOLUTELY NEED the capability to do That Thing right now. K, thanks.

          Whoops, we did That Thing."