President Donald Trump exacted revenge on Indiana Republican legislators who foiled his redistricting push last year in the state, backing challengers who unseated five incumbents in Tuesday’s primaries, NBC News projects.\u00a0 One other GOP state senator who faced a Trump-endorsed opponent was locked in a tight race, while another survived.\u00a0 The double-digit defeats of the five incumbents, some of whom are veterans of the Indiana Legislature, underscore the influence Trump continues to wield over the Republican Party, even as his approval rating among Americans broadly sags amid rising gas prices and the Iran war.<\/a><\/p>\nRegardless of mid-term elections and all the various Democrat howlings going on, this one instance shows that something fundamental has changed.\u00a0 Fake conservatives are being exposed and targeted for replacement all over the red states and beyond.\u00a0 And make no mistake, Trump legitimized this.\u00a0 He was the one highlighting who was fake.\u00a0 He called them out.\u00a0 And now there are the beginnings of accountability.\u00a0 Just as with Cornyn in Texas, fake conservatives are being challenged in Indiana and they will be targeted elsewhere.<\/p>\n
Now this won\u2019t be a clean sweep anywhere.\u00a0 Even red states have pockets of progressivism, mostly around the cities like Austin in Texas and Salt Lake City in Utah.\u00a0 There will always be exceptions.\u00a0 But it\u2019s encouraging to see leadership in Washington that calls out the fakes.<\/p>\n
And with just a little luck, the recent Supreme Court ruling that condemns race-based gerrymandering will net enough seats in 2026 to hold onto the House of Representatives.\u00a0 But if the Dems get the House back in 2026, we\u2019ll survive it and more.\u00a0 Trump is a powerhouse of annoying policies that will keep Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer screaming and crying for the next two and a half years.\u00a0 And that is a long time.<\/p>\n
And with just a little luck we can hope for a Republican president in 2028 and good things going forward.\u00a0 And even if the worst occurs and the Dems control Congress and the White House, I feel that we have learned enough about what is going on to protect ourselves from the fallout.\u00a0 We no longer have to pretend that we have anything in common with the Left and we will run our lives based on what will allow us to preserve the things that are important to us.\u00a0 There won\u2019t be any nonsense about meeting anyone in the middle.\u00a0 Because there no longer is a middle.\u00a0 There\u2019s us and there\u2019s them.\u00a0 The things they say amongst themselves is poisonous and evil and shows you their true intentions and they have nothing to do with coexistence.\u00a0 They intend to destroy us and all we can do is protect ourselves by every available means.<\/p>\n
And we will.\u00a0 We\u2019re getting better at running our own states and excluding them from our communities and their policies from our lives.\u00a0 There will be setbacks but we\u2019ve learned a lot and we will move forward.\u00a0 This I believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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