Republicans got shellacked last week. Historically creamed.

Self -reflection is not something that comes easily or quickly, especially to those who have a vested interest in the pre-shellacking status quo.

Nonetheless, at least some of them got it, right?

Ummm……

1) Sex abuse protector and January 6 supporter Jim Jordan was elected House Minority Leader by his caucus:

2) Fox News Trump-whisperer and chief political misinformer Sean Hannity says the election blowout was “normal” (is he talking about losing Kansas, Texas, Iowa and… Mississippi?):

3) Minority Whip Tom Emmer is ready to work with the new Democratic Majority: NOT.

4) Walking dead Senator Chukc Grassley memory-holed the Merrick Garland shenanigans and accused Democrats of wanting to do something his own team did. But let’s forgive him - he lost most of his memeory when he turned 100 fourty-seven years ago:

5) Avowed white nationalist of Russian Jewish descent Stephen Miller actually got promoted for the policies that played a major role in the voters’ rejection of his party and its policies:

6) Finally, the cult leader, low-energy as he may seem, reverted back to his tired trope of rigged elections because he couldn’t think of anything else to do or say (other than promote Stephen Miller):

There’s so much more - I could write another 10,000 words on Republicans’ collective failure to assess or adjust to an historic electoral defeat.

I’m with football coach Dennis Green who, in an epic rant after losing a game he believed his teams should have won, said, “… they are who we thought they were…”.

I’ll also paraphrase Upton Sinclair’s famous words: It’s impossible to get someone to understand something when they are in a cult and they believe they’re self-preservation depends on them not understanding it.

To all those political pundits who are now telling Democrats they need to “moderate” or seek compromise with Republicans one week after the party in power was historically rejected, I have a one-word answer:

“Naahh”.

Unfortunately, MAGA fever has not yet broken among its standard bearers. Truth is, for them, it likely never will. The United States will never truly reclaim its former role as Reagan’s “shining city on the hill”, the small “d” democratic envy of the world, until the scourge that is MAGA and Trumpism is fully relegated to the dustbin of history.

We are not there yet.

Be bold Democrats! Stand against type (the public’s view that Democrats are “weak and ineffective”) and forcefully stand up for what you believe in and relentlessly push forward the policies you support.

Now is not the time to listen to armchair pundits (am I one? well, at least I stood in Teddy Roosevelt’s arena and ran for federal office three times in deepest red) counseling caution and restraint.

The American people are getting screwed by the Epstein Class and our “big-money” system of legalized political bribery. People are clamoring for someone to come along and ease their daily struggles while the masters-of-the-universe tech bros fly and yacht around the globe at their leisure (except for Jensen Huang, of course).

Let’s show the people of the United States and the world that we have what it takes.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk…