He’s got my vote!
It depends on how you define “lose big”. From the AP:
"Tina Descovich, a Moms for Liberty founder, said that 40% of the candidates endorsed by the group won in Tuesday’s elections, bringing to 365 the number of its candidates who have won races in the past two years.
“We have to work harder and we have to figure out how to invest in our candidates,” Descovich said, noting that teachers unions — a frequent foe — have decades-old political operations."
According to the New Republic, MFL endorsed 130 school board candidates around the country in this election, and MFL says 50 of them won. It’s heartening that a majority lost, but that’s still too many bullshit-infested school boards.
That person could be a speechwriter for trump and his drivel would then make more sense, not less.
They’ve been heavily terrorizing the next county over from me, Loudoun in Virginia. I’m so relieved the voters showed them the door, threw 'em out on their ear, sent them packing, Cast. Them. tf Out.
Nah, LHoD is a master of satire, turning their own guns back on them. A response like that would leave them too befuddled to think of a comeback. Smart people can think rings around them.
Bragging about what percentage of endorsed candidates won is what you do when you don’t have a really good number to brag about. “Endorsed candidates” include incumbents, candidates in solidly red districts, candidates who didn’t need their help, etc. It’s one of Trump’s favorite plays - to endorse a shoe-in candidate and then tell everybody who’ll listen that the endorsement is the first last and biggest reason for the win.
Excellent point.
I was surprised to find that certain endorsements are regulated by federal law and you can’t just endorse whoever you want however you want.
There are rules about who endorses a candidate and how they do it. I figured it was all protected free speech, but apparently there are still regulations.
I find a lot to admire about Moms for Liberty. They are a living embodiment of the progressive, egalitarian nature of our society.
F’rinstance: they have similar groups in the Middle East, but their members are exclusively male, and they go by more ominous sounding names like the Taliban.
I went go find this person, and had to include the rest of the statement, which certainly clarifies everything.
Eh, Québécois, Queens, First’s, woMEN’s? Yup ??? CANADIAN! Justin Truly our time has coming…holding Ontario hat’s:)
Sheer poetry! Her interviews are entertainingly whackdoodle.
That’s what they said about trump until he gained a few million crazed adherents. Then a few tens of millions.
Mark my words, this woman will destroy all of Canada some day.
j/k. I hope.
I think that this will be particularly true in this type of election. You are only going to endorse candidates in red districts where you think your brand is popular enough that it will help get your candidate elected. In swing districts and hostile territory, you might be better off running a stealth campaign, let the only chosen voters know who your candidate is by word of mouth/pulpit and hope that other voters pick them at random from among a bunch of unknowns.
I don’t know. These right wingers probably figure it’s worth it to publicly declare their support for a few candidates they know will lose. Those inevitable defeats will fire up the outrage among their base. And let them claim that the Democrats must be winning elections by illegally stealing votes. Bonus points if they pick minority candidates for these sacrifices; then they can claim that this proves that Democrats are secretly racist or sexist.
Wichita, Kansas school district is the largest district in the state. It has a 7-member school board, 4 of which were elected two years ago, and 3 of which were on the ballot this week. In 2021, 3 of the 4 members elected were Mom for Liberty-esque, running on a shared platform of school vouchers, book banning, and CRT fear-mongering. This week, 3 more of these clowns ran for the open positions, but they all lost to moderates, all of whom were endorsed by the Teachers Union. Score another one for the good folks.
One of Stephen Colbert’s books had the progression as something like:
Republic
Democratic Republic
Democratic People’s Republic
Shining Happy Democratic People’s Republic
That last one is for when REM takes over your government.
And is otherwise known as a REM State.
Well done.
I don’t want to applaud this, and yet I have no choice. 
The leftwing writer and historian Mike Davis has been pointing this out for years. His take is many of the big shots in the Democratic part have been content to ignore grassroots struggles, preferring to put their money and work into the “big” campaigns and running ad-based rather than door knocking campaigns. Davis I not the only one to make this criticism of the Democratic Party.