This week's podcast is going to feature a conversation that I had with POTSafe America's

John Favreau.

But first, a bit of a postmortem on what happened on Tuesday, how we got here, and where

we go from here.

Let me just say one thing to get off my chest before I go into the actual useful conversation

here.

The stolen election narrative on the right disappeared in one fell swoop the moment Trump won.

In other words, after the last four years of these people insisting beyond any semblance of a doubt

that Trump won in 2020 because of rampant fraud, apparently elections are secure again.

So what happened?

Democrats knew how to cheat in 2020 when they didn't have control of the federal government,

but now that they do have control of the federal government, they, what, forgot to cheat?

I know that the sun will freeze over before we hear any acknowledgement from these people

that they were wrong or deceived or purposefully peddling lies, but they were.

And I hope that we all take into account that this encapsulates perfectly, the shamelessness

with which the GOP operates. A four-year campaign claiming that Democrats commit fraud in

elections and that our elections can't be trusted that vanished the instant, instant, the system worked in their favor,

which I suppose brings me to the crux of my argument here in discussing what went wrong.

So a couple things here.

First, we can't have this conversation without first acknowledging that the global environment was horrific for incumbents.

According to the Financial Times, this is the first time since 1905 that

every governing party in the world lost vote share. There was a period of global inflation

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