? SEN. JOHN KENNEDY JUST NOW: “This was NOT a normal midterm election. If you’ve concluded otherwise, congratulations, you’re STUPID!” Republicans have not even 2 months until they lose power in Congress and EVERY SINGLE SECOND should be spent on getting sht done! https://t.co/e5CjI71KIl
— Ezra A Cohen (@EzraACohen_Q) November 11, 2026
The 2026 midterm election results were mixed.
On the one hand, I have never in my life been more alienated from the Republican Party, which suffered a historic defeat here in the Deep South. No one in my family voted in the midterms. Tommy Tuberville only won the Alabama governor’s race by 3 points. Rhett Marques lost his congressional bid. Alabama had one of the biggest swings in the country even though Republicans survived here.
On the other hand, our friend Marshall Rawson was successful in his bid to win a seat in the Florida House of Representatives. Before Trump launched Operation Midnight Hammer in June 2025, I had given a big speech at our conference in which I defended engaging in practical politics at the state and local level and celebrated how our views were becoming increasingly mainstream on the Right. We watched our own plans come to fruition while Trump and MAGA were rejected by voters last week.
As we head into 2027, I am not blackpilled on politics or even participating in Republican politics. The truth is complicated. Millions of Republican and Independent voters, especially those under the age of 45, sat out the election in disgust or were angry enough to vote for Democrats for the same reasons that I stayed home. Half of Republican voters are sick and tired of Israel. Trump is on the way out the door. The MAGA cult of personality is over. BoomerCons are losing power. The future of the party is up for grabs.
A more hopeful way to look at the midterms is to say it was like the end of the age of the dinosaurs in the Sunbelt. Republican politicians like Cindy Hyde-Smith, Tommy Tuberville, Byron Donalds, Lindsey Graham and Marsha Blackburn aren’t just going to coast to victory anymore here. We’ve just lived through a catastrophe which might prove to be in the long run exactly what we needed to reenter politics.
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