The midterm elections later this year are, as they always are, important. The troubling thing this time around is the rise of Democratic Socialism. Sure, Francis Hong lost her primary on Tuesday, which is good for both the people of Wisconsin and for Thanksgiving, but plenty of others have won and may win the general election.
And that introduces some uncertainty that I'm not a big fan of.
David Codrea, writing at Firearm News, says this about the midterms:
All those hopes could be dashed on Tuesday, November third, and the only people who can see that they are not are gun owners. That’s the date of the midterm elections and depending on who wins, momentum will also be created for the 2028 presidential election.
Although divided by an insurgency of “socialist” (flat-out communist) firebrand malcontents challenging the old guard, counting on that sidelining the Democrats is wishful thinking and unsupported by polls. The divisions and hatreds are deep, and there are plenty who expressed opinions that they’d have voted for scandal-plagued Graham Platner over “moderate” squish Susan Collins had he not dropped out. Now that he has, she’ll still face the challenge of her political career, and while it looks at this writing like Democrat delegates will pick former Republican Troy Jackson, there’s reason to think Maine voters would pick any name that doesn’t have a (D) after it.
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That especially holds true for Party hostility toward the right of the people to keep and bear arms, which is curious because, if you think about it, that’s always been the ultimate guarantor of citizenship diversity, equity, and inclusion. Could it be that those whose main goal is power are insincere, and counting on useful idiots to swallow their emotionally-charged platitudes?
So, say the Democrats do well in the midterms and go on to retake the White House. What will that mean for all the progress made on advancing the Second Amendment over the past few years?
You know where Codrea went after this. You know because it's obvious. A Democratic White House and Congress will immediately start their march to roll back as many of the gains we've made as they can. Sure, they might not be able to ignore court rulings, but it won't stop them from trying.
And all of the rule changes could go away as the first order of business.
Look, I don't like feeling as if every election is an existential threat to the United States, but that's where we've gotten. We can't just shrug at a loss and wait for it to be our turn anymore. Now, every election is for the very soul of our country, and part of that is our right to keep and bear arms being preserved or attacked.
The Biden administration did more damage to the Second Amendment than any president in my lifetime, if not in all of history. Trump rolled a lot of that back, but he's got just one term, and it's nearly half over. The midterms need to go against the anti-gunners because it makes it that much harder for them to pull their shenanigans even if they take the White House in two years. While the House seats will be up for grabs again, the Senate ones won't, and incumbency will still help those in the House.
It actually does matter here and now.
But I'll also acknowledge that this one isn't exactly about the existential threat, so long as the anti-gun Democrats don't get a supermajority in the Senate. As long as the filibuster remains, anti-gun legislation can be blocked. Assuming, of course, that Republican leadership will have the cojones to use it as they did the last go-around.
I hate playing defense, but holding onto enough of the Senate to use the filibuster is the wall we've got to defend to the death (metaphorically). Holding onto everything else just makes it a bit less critical.
