President Donald Trump’s political supporters have long been described as cult-like, from their willingness to change their ideology based on Trump’s whims to their reflexive distrust of established experts. In light of the Republican leader’s politically devastating losses in the 2026 midterm elections, these same true believers are now angry at every voter who did not stand by their man, at least according to a recent in-depth study.
“Last week we assembled a focus group of Republicans who voted for President Trump in both 2020 and 2024, and who, except for some local elections, voted straight-ticket Republican in this year’s midterms,” wrote polling expert Sarah Longwell in The Bulwark on Sunday.
“In my conversation with these voters, one thing became abundantly clear in their cacophony of cope: They were not blaming Trump,” Longwell added. “Instead, they were blaming the GOP candidates on the ticket for being terrible. They were blaming social media for pushing Trump Derangement Syndrome. And they were blaming their fellow Americans, who they insisted were just too brainwashed and emotional to just hold their noses and vote for the terrible candidates that Republicans offered them.”
She was a Republican operative and worked at a conservative think tank until Trump. She’s actively partially responsible for us being where we are.
She’s the one responsible for bringing in Liz Cheney to campaign with Harris.
She supported Cuomo over Mamdani. She backed Haley Stevens.
And now she’s trying to insert herself and her barely covert right wing bullshit into the future trajectory of the Democratic party. She’s got no business being anywhere near the levers of power in the Democratic party. And yet here she is trying to claim Tuesday’s victories as her own. Despite being, again, a Republican party operative until very recently.
She is trying to drag the party right and we cannot let her.
Listen to her on Wednesday’s Weekly Show. Red flag after red flag. She literally says she supports Israel at one point, and implies everyone who disagrees is terminally online and an extremist leftist.