Republicans Declare Loss Of Congress A Strategic Victory

Republicans celebrated losing both chambers of Congress this week by unveiling a streamlined leadership model in which nobody accepts responsibility and everyone remains entitled to command. Democrats flipped more than 40 House seats and captured the Senate, an outcome GOP officials described as a carefully engineered “strategic minority” intended to spare the party from governing during an affordability crisis. Party strategists said surrendering congressional control would give Republicans more time to investigate the consequences of policies they no longer have enough votes to enact.

House Speaker Mike Johnson announced he would not seek minority leadership, clearing the way for Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise to begin the party’s customary reconciliation process of privately counting enemies while publicly praising unprecedented unity. Rep. Greg Steube, who demanded that Republican leaders step aside after the “annihilation,” said the criticism proved the conference remained cohesive because every member agreed that a different member had ruined everything. Advisers also praised the defeat of Republicans in competitive districts, explaining that lawmakers capable of winning swing voters had burdened the conference with ideological impurities such as arithmetic, compromise and continued employment.

President Donald Trump declared the result an electoral triumph too sophisticated to be detected through vote totals. “We won in a much deeper way, because when you lose the House and the Senate, everybody talks about you, and attention is much bigger than ballots,” Trump said. “Democrats won pieces of paper, but we won television, which is where the country actually lives.” Jordan and Scalise then prepared rival campaigns to lead the diminished House caucus, with each promising to restore Republican credibility by defeating the other Republican promising to restore Republican credibility. Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries is expected to become speaker in January, provided Republicans finish auditing the loss and determine which faction deserves credit for delivering him the gavel. The party’s historic loss of Congress was therefore confirmed as a total Republican victory.

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