Today on The BradCast: Analysis (and giddiness) continues amid the fallout from Election 2025, during which the bottom appeared to drop out for Team Trump — at least for now — pretty much everywhere that voters turned out in some 30 states holding off-year local or statewide elections. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.]
We’re joined today by listener faves and fellow old-school bloggers HEATHER DIGBY PARTON of Salon and Digby’s Hullabaloo and ‘DRIFTGLASS’ of the Professional Left Podcast in the wake of Tuesday’s remarkable elections, in which Democrats and other anti-Trump voters made their opposition to the failed first year of the second Donald Trump presidency crystal clear — even to Republicans who care to take notice.
Not only did Democratic candidates — from the left to the center — win, so did ballot initiatives supported by them. And, not only did they all win, they all won by huge margins in virtually every jurisdiction across the country holding elections on Tuesday, in both high and low profile contests and ballot initiatives from Maine to New York City to New Jersey to Virginia to Georgia to Mississippi to Pennsylvania to California and beyond.
“Trump and Trumpism, and this style of politics that he has brought into the Republican Party, the cult of personality that has been dominating our country over the last decade — I think we can see a light at the end of the tunnel here,” Digby argues. “Trump is now officially a lame duck. It’s earlier than people thought it would be. It sent a shock-wave, I think, through the Republican Party that he’s on his way out. And now, let the games begin. Because the fighting within the Republican Party is going to be a glorious thing to see.”
“I was surprised how deep the coattails were, how deep the ‘blue’ ran in all these elections,” observes Driftglass. “I am very confident now that a bunch of ‘blue’ states can redistrict with confidence.” Rooting on Texas Republicans to please proceed with their gerrymandering, he continues: “Please, go ahead and do that. Because I think they did not understand that lots of large blocks of voters were not theirs permanently. We saw huge shifts in almost every demographic [on Tuesday]. ‘Blue’ won everywhere. And that should send a signal to Democrats everywhere it’s okay to take risks, it’s okay to be who you are, say what you believe and swing for the fences, because that is now being rewarded.”
Among the many related and unrelated topics discussed today…
- The death and legacy of Dick Cheney.
- The announced retirement (next year) and legacy of Nancy Pelosi.
- The fallout from the surprising results of Election 2025.
- The media failures in the leadup to the election.
- The ridiculous, cowardly failure of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York (and other “leading” Dems) to endorse the young, charismatic Democratic sensation, now NYC Mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani.
- Are those establishment Dems more afraid Mamdani will fail? Or that he will succeed?
- Who’s more of a socialist, Mamdani or Trump?
- Does Trump even know what “socialism” means, much less “communism”? (Much less whatever fairly moderate and measured affordability measures Mamdani ran on in his NYC campaign?)
- The D.C. Sandwich Guy is found “not guilty” of misdemeanor assault with a deadly hero. (“That’s a ‘wrap’,” quips Driftglass. “Another example of the Trump Administration not knowing how courts work.”)
- After Gov. Gavin Newsom‘s Prop 50 redistricting measure’s resounding success in California on Tuesday, will other Dem Governors follow suit?
- Will Trump-ordered mid-decade GOP gerrymanders come back to haunt them next year?
- Will Tuesday’s results finally bring Republicans any closer to ending the federal government shutdown?
And more! Including Desi Doyen and our latest Green News Report on the critical climate races in Tuesday’s elections and Brazil‘s successful climate fight against deforestation under its new President…
I’m So Glad
But they are mad.
… still hoping …
Yes!
Tuesday’s results were good news, but I still can’t help feeling a bit apocalyptic.
Here’s the band for that:
https://music.newcity.com/2019/...al-fuck-storm/
When 21st Century Schizoid Man just isn’t strong enough anymore, there’s always this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...;start_radio=1