Wyoming Congresswoman and George Santos Cosplay Enthusiast, Harriet Hageman, managed to beat Liz Cheney, a scion of Wyoming's most important politician, Torture Maven, Dick Cheney. She held a townhall - which is really not a thing Republicans are doing anymore - and was basically booed off stage.
I continue to vacillate over Democratic capitulation on the shutdown vote. I still can't quite see how shutting down the government stops Elon Musk from shutting down the government.
However, it really does seem that Musk and DOGE are increasingly becoming a millstone around the necks of the GOP. A state like Wyoming prides itself on its rugged frontier individualism, but the reality is their economy is propped up by all sorts of Federal spending, including agricultural subsidies, national parks and mineral exploitation of federal lands. The budgetary slasher film that Musk is filming in DC is going to gut places like Wyoming, if it's allowed to continue.
In 2009, the Obama folks thought they had a handle on the recovery from the 2008 crash, but they spent too little and focused too much on aiding institutions and not individuals. The resulting anger was the Tea Party that swamped the elections of 2010. At the time, I think I was dismissive of the protests and anger that showed up at townhalls from 2009-2010. Like Republicans today, I assumed it was people already hostile to Democrats.
We can't forget that the Trumpenreich is full of both terrible and incompetent people. Both of which should come and bite them in the ass, if we can have free and fair elections in 2026.
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