It was epochal and marks a new era in our political history. And for once everyone rushed to name clearly what happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The morning after the 2026 midterm elections, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was searingly blunt. For the Republican Party it was \u201cclose to an extinction level event.\u201d Its effects will \u201creverberate for the next decade or more.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt was a Watergate-level repudiation,\u201d said Ted Cruz, soon to be Texas\u2019 lone Republican senator, on a podcast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ronna McDaniel, Republican National Committee chairman in the first Trump term, told Fox News on Wednesday the election wasn\u2019t only a Democratic wave, it was \u201ca Republican rebellion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p> Peggy Noonan, the Reagan speechwriter who has spent decades as the Wall Street Journal\u2019s keeper of the old Republican flame, has written the GOP\u2019s obituary. Her verdict: Trump is the author of the ruin.\n\nIt wasn\u2019t the war alone, she argues. It was the prices. The tariffs. Above all, the corruption, showy and shameless: crypto, pardons, federal contracts for his sons\u2019 companies. Then came the decadence. Three days before the election, Trump threw a jungle-themed Halloween party with a caviar bar while Americans outside the gates added up their grocery receipts.\n\nRon DeSantis called Tuesday\u2019s results \u201cclose to an extinction level event\u201d for his party. Trump\u2019s response: sign a ballroom beam, declare his office a national monument, and blame Fox\u2019s polls.\n\nNoonan has a line for that: \u201cPlease. It was you, Fredo.\u201d\nWhen a Reagan speechwriter is quoting The Godfather at you, the party is over.\n\n https:\/\/t.co\/Gptx4aHDHV<\/p>— Bucky (@BuckyNoseBest) November 6, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>\n