Turns Out Some People ARE Actually 'Tired of Winning.'

Subscribers to The National Pulse saw my blood-spitting e-mail from Tuesday night, or perhaps the version we published on the website yesterday.

The response, for the most part, has been decent. People understand that losing is bad, whether it is in “Democratic strongholds” or not. Especially when the margins are so big, and the victorious candidates so heinous.

The litany of excuses I’ve heard from an element that wants to remain blameless (and keep losing?), however, has left me wondering if MAGA has, indeed, become tired of winning?

I write to you from the Acela train from Washington, D.C., to New York City, to attend what I described to one of my guests tonight at the Claremont Institute’s annual gala as my “last hurrah” in Manhattan.

And it is the last hurrah because, despite the efforts of many, New York Republicans and conservatives have failed, election after election, to offer the city a candidate who might actually break 10% of the vote share.

Don’t get me wrong. Curtis Sliwa seems fine, aside from the 17 cats and the unremovable beret. But he’s not a winning candidate.

The same can be said in New Jersey, and certainly in Virginia, where the GOP fielded candidates far removed from MAGA, and far from invigorating for an electorate that is aching to hear less about peace deals in Cambodia and more about domestic economic pursuits.

We’re not particularly interested, at this time, in looking at newly renovated marble bathrooms in the West Wing, pleasant as they may be. As we learned in 2016, there is a finite amount of time to set this country back on the right course, especially with looming midterms that are almost certainly going to herald a fresh wave of indictments and impeachments, if the trends continue.

This is why it’s not enough to dismiss this past week’s elections and “Democrats in Democrat cities voting for Democrats.” That’s a cop-out, and we all know it.

Last year, we thumped our chests about running Democrats close in places like New York, Virginia, and New Jersey. At least, closer than in a very long time.

The MAGA-world consultants will shriek, “But Trump wasn’t on the ballot this time!” as if that excuses their inability to find decent candidates and fight gruelling election battles. If he wasn’t “on the ballot,” there are plenty of ways to get him “on the ballot,” including picking candidates that haven’t spoken ill of him, promoting ballot measures that underscore the MAGA victory of last year, and having the President host large, in-person rallies in the districts in question. This is entry-level stuff.

In reality, we haven’t heard a peep from the RNC in recent months. Can you even name the chairman off the top of your head? It’s Joe Gruters, by the way. Another Susie Wiles ally from Florida who probably doesn’t mind New York City going to hell in a handbasket because of what it means to Miami and other parts of their state.

I’m not alleging an economic motivation, however. What I’m alleging is fecklessness, and incompetence, and perhaps even exhaustion.

Perhaps the people around the President have become “tired of winning,” and possibly there is a need for a refresh? They all fought long and hard and did fantastic work, and there’s plenty of victory laps to be taken. Indeed, they were all posting “first victory anniversary” memes while significant parts of the country were smarting over their newly elected socialist leaders, yesterday. It screams, “out of touch.”

Can Republicans really afford to go into the midterms with this mentality? A foreign policy focus, and a newfound reluctance to fight Democrats on their own turf? What is this, Bush’s Republican Party?

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