If Democrats can put the country through four years of hell by feverishly promoting the ridiculous conspiracy that President Trump worked with Russia to steal the 2016 election, then they can certainly endure a few weeks of Trump supporters contesting the results of the 2020 election.
Actually, Trump supporters would be entitled to keep this thing going for President-elect Joe Biden’s full term in office. The “resistance” never gave up and accepted the election result — why should Trump’s supporters?
None of what they are doing will change the outcome of the 2020 election. But liberals made us all miserable for four years, so I see no reason that they should be comfortable now.
However, Trump supporters must show they can chew gum and walk at the same time. If they want to protect Trump’s legacy, they have to make sure that Republicans pick up at least one of the two Senate seats still up for grabs in Georgia. Ideally, Republicans will retain both seats, for extra certitude that Democrats and the Biden administration fail to pass a “Green New Deal” or create more seats on the Supreme Court.
But if the GOP can’t keep both, just one will ensure that it maintains majority control in the Senate. Which seat should it keep? Who cares? Neither Republicans David Perdue, the senior senator, nor Kelly Loeffler, the junior, are particularly remarkable. Both will vote against the Banana Republic-style policies championed by the Ilhan Omar wing of the Democratic Party.
If a gun were pointed at me, and I had to choose, I’d go with Perdue. He’s been in the Senate for several years and seems to care about the job. Loeffler, by contrast, apparently needed something to do in her free time. She was appointed in 2020 after former Sen. Johnny Isakson resigned for health reasons.
One of Loeffler’s main attacks against her Democratic opponent, Rev. Raphael Warnock, is that he’s “anti-Israel.” It’s as if she watched old recordings of what Republicans were saying in 2002 and decided to make that her platform. My guess is that you couldn’t find 10 voters in Georgia in either party who are going to vote based on what’s best for Israel. Loeffler might try considering what’s best for Americans.
Both Loffler and Perdue’s opponents are standard-issue Democrats, even if Perdue’s opponent, Jon Ossoff, is more the annoying of the two. Ossoff ran for a House seat in 2017 and lost, despite record campaign spending and overwhelming, adoring coverage from the national media. (In April of that year, a wide-eyed Nancy Cordes of CBS asked Ossoff, “Do you feel more pressure knowing that Democrats across this country have invested their hopes in you?”) Now, Ossoff, a Georgetown graduate with a degree from the London School of Economics, is campaigning around Georgia while putting on a Southern accent.
Republican voters who wanted another four years of Trump have every right to be mad, and even to return the favor paid them by Democrats since 2016. But there’s no better way to get back at Democrats than to make sure Republicans keep the Senate.
