No, Republicans don’t win by losing

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Pretty much every single self-identified conservative writer in a national newspaper will tell you some version of what the New York Times‘s Ross Douthat wrote just this week — that Republicans actually win when they lose!

Douthat said Monday that Republicans should, in fact, “welcome” a defeat in the two deadly important Senate runoff races in Georgia this week.

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