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Happy Monday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Serbunqwytiin had recently begun to loudly proclaim that he was "lactose indifferent" whenever dining out.
It has been almost a week since the country was hit with a case of the blues. Given the extreme commie bent of the Democratic Party, it's more like a red scare. The color representations of the two major American political parties seem to be due for a reimagining.
As I mentioned on X, I spent the weekend "macrodosing" ice cream and beer as part of my weekly political disengagement. This was one of the better coping mechanisms that I've tried after an annoying election.
The 2026 midterms post-mortem pondering is moving out of the hot take phase and we're seeing some things that are more thoughtful, if not exactly comforting.
Gas prices have been getting tons of attention since the election, but that may just be a lot of noise that's keeping the focus away from deeper problems. My longtime colleague Stacey Lennox is back from a bit of a hiatus and wrote this over the weekend:
Don’t talk to me about gas prices. The average gas price on Election Day 2026 was $4.18. On Election Day 2022, it was $4.10. After 9.1% inflation in June, a disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan on September 11, and an open border, Joe Biden and the Democrats gained a Senate seat and lost only six House seats. Democrats effectively used fear about further abortion restrictions to turn out their voters and put abortion measures on the ballot in several red states because they know how and what to message.
Democrats are always better at messaging because they're not honor-bound by things like telling the truth or basing their policies in reality. That doesn't excuse the Republicans from historically having almost no messaging skills whatsoever, though. Republicans not named Donald Trump, that is.
There was a lot of good to talk about this year, but most of the Republican candidates never got around to any of it. There were a lot of effective attack ads. Voters like something to vote for, however, not just something to vote against. I've been writing about that for a very long time.
Greg Gutfeld had some post-election analysis that made more sense than almost anything that I read last week. This is from Matt:
"My theory on what happened on Tuesday is definitely pure Trump fatigue," Gutfeld said on Fox News' The Five last week. "And we know this: two years of Trump is like 10 human years of anybody. The guy did so much that we forget about it. We forget about it."
Then he walked through the record, and it's a long one.
We've spent a lot of time here at the Briefing discussing President Trump's legendary work ethic and the furious pace that he's gone about implementing his ambitious agenda. An agenda that we all know is good for the long term health of the Republic.
As a Southwesterner, I'd be thrilled if the Trump 47 administration's only accomplishment was securing the border that is just 60 miles away from me.
Sometimes doing what's best doesn't yield immediate, election-friendly results. Yes, the pace of the war effort in Iran was a real drag on the GOP this year, but I do like the idea of not worrying about getting nuked by some psychopath Muslim clerics.
History won't be written by leftist morons forever, and one day the monumental accomplishments of President Trump will be acknowledged. Even if the Democrats succeed in screwing them all up.
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