persecution of a true christian seems to be making a resurgance

With a side of cricket "meatloaf!"

And we will replace your Lone Star beer with Pinot Noir, MUHAHAHAHA!

Also in the context of Texas there is hate for Paxton. He was impeach by his own party for corruption and other Republicans were actually stumping against him. And a lot of people are pissed at Abbott for the school vouchers, and Patrick for taking away what legal access to weed we had. Once you had Republicans breaking for Talarico that opened the door for them to consider going whole ticket.

I suspect it's that but also Americans desperate for change. Which is also what helped got Trump elected in the first place as ironic as that is. That sentiment though, that "everything is broken and the system doesn't work" sentiment is driving a ton of votes from every direction.

Everything is a bit of everything and looking for patterns is just our neurology deceiving us.

Mostly yes, but I think we can say it's a bit of both.

I think making this out to be more than “Everyone hates Trump” is over-estimating the American electorate

Democrats ran someone in every seat, creating a “reverse coattail” effect to get the word out about the whole ticket, even in districts where local candidates were sure to get walloped. They made significant investments in voter turnout, especially in purple counties. And they went all in behind the ticket they had, even if it was not the star-studded list they’d originally imagined.

I found this part interesting because that's not what my ballot showed. There was about three or four races where it was just a republican running unopposed. Would have liked to have seen even a token Democrat in those races cuz it might have paid off.

I can understand it after the dems dragged their feet so much during the biden admin and basically kind of let trump 2 happen, but we've got a lot of new faces right now who all seem like they have spines so I'm hopeful.

The new Democratic leadership will have to crush it, as he's not up for re-election until 2030.

In fact this proves that Democrats should absolutely not abandon trans people. They didn't win this by a razor-thin margin. They didn't win this by snatching a couple of Republican bigots by turning on trans people. They won this as a complete repudiation of the Republican ideals. So we can't let them pretend like that was a winning strategy.

So even though there was a horde of neolibs on Lemmy advocating stripping minorities of their rights were know that they were dead fucking wrong.

It's going to be hard without the state Senate. Texas is so gerrymandered that the statewide blowout couldn't re-take the state Senate, which also conveniently has swing-ish districts up only in Presidential years when they expect lower-propensity "Shy MAGA" voters to show up.

And that this proves Dems should... abandon trans people?

I don't think their scripts covered what to do when the real people on Lemmy are both happy and ignoring their bullshit.

Good start, now pass legislation permitting abortion again please

maybe they got shipped to the front lines

They're now saying that the dems won't do anything. It was pretty rampant yesterday.

What happened to all of those accounts who spent the last few months posting about how BoTh SiDeS aRe ThE sAmE and how voting was bad or useless?

Obligatory.

Real tangible benefits to voting people.

I interviewed at Funimation in Fort Worth back when he worked there.

I agree that he doesn't care about polling, but his handlers do; he more or less only cares whether it works, and it simply doesn't anymore, which his handlers can see in polls but likely dumb down for him.

trump doesn't care about polling, though. If he did he would have stopped showing up and ruining his party's campaigns.

Keep Texas Freaky?