In an actual sentence printed by right wing outlet the Washington Examiner on Thursday, under the actual headline of “Why Republicans are hoping for midterm help from a star-spangled summer,” the paper writes that, given the national semiquincentennial, “senior Republican figures hope that a national feel-good factor and a surge in patriotic pride will help their party in the midterm elections.”
Yeah. The Examiner’s Rob Crilly, who has a job and ostensibly a home and a family whom he’s responsible for, seriously wrote that. To be fair he doesn’t appear to personally endorse the notion, tempering it with “Republicans will need all the help they can get. Democrats need only pick up three seats to win back the House, and with Trump’s approval rate falling as fast as gas prices are rising, they might even have a shot at taking the Senate,” but the thirst for Trump and Republicans’ insufferably over-the-top appropriation of all the aesthetics of patriotism, the flag, the Founding Fathers, and so on and so forth to somehow conjure votes for the GOP isn’t exactly dismissed either.
Crilly quotes Club for Growth douchebag David McIntosh saying “We’ve got, with our foundation, a plan to celebrate it over the Fourth of July… and we have done a couple of events to point out key times in our founding, I think that will remind Americans that we have something beautiful in our system of government, and we should cherish it and make sure that it goes forward. I think that’s motivational to Republicans and our base and moderate or mainstream Democrats. I’m not sure that’s motivational to the hard progressives,” making it plain how he just feels as though it’ll work out for the party and help them overcome any military casualties in the Middle East and $5/gallon gas.
This may actually be even more stupid than when the other right wing rag claiming “Washington” as its media market printed “Sharp drop in police killed on duty credited to Trump-driven shift away from anti-police culture” last July. At least that one had some actual data parallel to the feels.