I hate being a downer but it’s hard for me to come up with any compelling reason, outside of fear mongering on culture war issues, to tell young people or anyone undecided to show up and vote Republican this year.
We lost our status as the anti-endless-war party. People can’t afford to live. Many good people in the admin have been kneecapped, fired, or left.
We are now the party of the Iran War and White House renovations.
Some good stuff has been done, but it hasn’t translated into a meaningful enough change in people’s day to day lives.
To top it all off, the only fresh candidate on our ballot here is….Darline Graham.
I won’t be disingenuous and try to push them to vote Republican when I myself don’t even currently have a good reason to vote Republican, and that’s a huge problem.
This gets to the politics of the Iran war. There were other structural issues driving up costs, the dollar is falling, the fraud, on and on. That’s why the timing of the war was catastrophic. Needed to wait.