The Red Ripple

Turns out American voters are unimpressed with more than just the Democrats.

“I was wrong,” wrote Melissa Mackenzie, publisher of The American Spectator, on Wednesday, November 9, 2022. “Terribly wrong.” “I’m what happens when a conservative believes the polls,” she said. “I had wrongly thought that the polls swinging toward the Republicans meant that the polls were undercounting Republican support, as they have from time immemorial.” Melissa is certainly not alone. Almost all of us at The American Spectator missed the call. We all thought that the red wave would come ashore with a furious assault on the Democrat Party and its collection of misfits, overeducated dunces, fraudulent “experts,” race hustlers, sex hustlers, crony capitalists, rent seekers, and Marxist wreckers who have spent the past two years abusing power to bring America to a depth not seen since the miasma of the late 1970s. What goes up must come down, and vice versa, we all assumed. It’s basic physics. I myself wrote a piece analogizing the dynamics of an ocean wave as it comes ashore after being triggered by disturbances under the water, the water rising as the wave slows due to friction encountered in shallower water. Physics very often describes politics, as human behavior is strikingly similar to the behavior of nature. It’s only rational to assume that two years of failure, corruption, nuttery, and tyranny at the hands of Joe Biden (or whichever faceless Obamites handle him like a marionette), Chuck Schumer, and Nancy Pelosi would produce a tsunami on November 8. So, I was right there with Melissa. I saw the red wave coming. But what did reach land on November 8 was no red wave. It was barely a sea spray. Subscribers, click here to read the full magazine. Not a subscriber? Click here to become a Patriot member today and receive access to The American Spectator in print and online! Three days after the elections, the counting in Nevada and Arizona continued, a shameful and suspicious governmental failure that fueled familiar accusations of cheating, and Republican expe...