Welcome back to be on the polls. This week, I take a deep dive into Tuesdays Texas

runoffs with Scott Brow. Let's dive in.

Well, Tuesday night happened, and Tuesday night was an interesting night. Certainly,

the headline is Thomas Massey is wiped out. Thomas Massey's career is over,

and it wasn't close. You know, if you're talking about an incumbent congressman who was trying

for his eighth term, losing by 10 points, it's pretty embarrassing, particularly when you don't

have a scandal. I mean, it's one thing if Thomas Massey had been caught in a sex scandal or in a financial scandal or the elite confidential defense information was under indictment. You know, that's the sort of thing that you would usually expect. But all he did was oppose the president on some high profile items, and his career comes tumbling down.

What does that mean?

Well, I think it means what we all know it means, which is that there has never been

a president who has complete personal control over the voters of his party to the extent that Donald Trump has.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to do that at the height of his popularity after the 1936

historic landslide. He tried to pack the Supreme Court, tried to push some other liberal

ideas through, was thwarted by Democrats in the Senate and in the House,

and he launched his own primary purge and lost most of his races. And of course, that example,

if the great Franklin Roosevelt can't impose discipline on his recalcitrant members,

what does that mean for poor little old me? know it's been decades uh since somebody tried to

imitate roosevelt and get involved consistently in party primaries but trump's been doing it

didn't do a lot of it in his first term although he made clear his displeasure with people and

a lot of people chose to leave rather than fight but he certainly has had no problem doing it in the last

few years. And boy, is he winning in my newsletter, which you must subscribe to, free at the

Washington Post, don't have to be a subscriber margin of victory. I call his continued ability

in the last month to unseat incumbents his Sherman-esque revenge tour.

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