McCarthy’s Moment

As House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy measures the drapes in the Speaker’s office, I hope he takes some time to seriously consider the moment we are in and his own responsibility for Tuesday’s results.

An interesting survey was released several weeks ago. It should have set off alarm bells, but it went largely unnoticed. It found that 56% of voters did not believe the GOP had sufficiently explained why it deserved their votes.

I’ll say this much for Joe Biden and the Democrats: They had a unifying theme – defending democracy from Donald Trump and the “semi-fascists.” 

Can anyone articulate what the GOP theme was? 

There was an effort to recreate the magic of Newt Gingrich’s Contract with America. But the rollout of the “Commitment to America” was bungled and delayed, and it was soon forgotten and never talked about.  I don’t recall reading about even one Republican candidate actually running on it.

“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”