The Cannon
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Saturday, November 7, 2026
Republicans Lost. Conservatism Won.
Republicans had a lousy midterm night. House and Senate majorities flipped. Plenty of solid people lost. Congratulations, Washington Republicans. You asked voters for the keys and came back carrying the bumper.
There’s plenty of blame available: Iran, gas and diesel prices, weak candidates, poor messaging, and an exhausted public. Everybody gets a helping.
Before the media write the obituary for America-first politics, somebody should check the ballot measures. I know. Homework. Ruins a perfectly good victory party.
Voters approved core conservative ideas while rejecting plenty of Republican candidates. The agenda still has support. The GOP establishment has a delivery problem.
And delivery includes being able to afford a home.
Young people, especially men under 40, moved hard toward Democrats. I see a simple reason: they cannot buy a starter home. A first-time homebuyer age of 40 is politically untenable and culturally unacceptable. How long are young Americans supposed to wait before they can afford to start their lives?
Give people a shot at a home, affordable groceries, cheap gas, and room to raise a family. A campaign promising prosperity ought to produce more than prosperous campaign consultants.
The ballot results show Republicans still have an opening.
Look at the conservative ballot measures voters passed in red and blue states alike on issues the Senate wouldn’t touch. Apparently, the voters could find the time. Senators were terribly busy telling us how difficult everything is.
Bans on biological males competing in girls’ and women’s sports passed in multiple states, including places nobody confuses with conservative strongholds. Arizona, Nebraska, and others approved protections for female athletes. Citizen-only voting won in state after state. Voter ID provisions advanced where voters had a say. Idaho voters put English as the official state language into their constitution by a wide margin.
Quite a night for an allegedly exhausted agenda. Somebody get the experts a chair.
Washington State offers the clearest example. Initiative 638 required biological sex verification and barred biological males from girls’ K-12 sports. Deep-blue Washington seemed like such a tough sell. It won by over 13 points.
Republicans should hear both messages. People want secure borders, fair elections, biological reality in sports and private spaces, and a government capable of staying in its lane. They also want enough money left after groceries and gas to imagine owning a home.
Winning an argument about the border doesn’t make the down payment appear.
Economic frustration also changes how people see the world. Questions about Israel’s place in American politics have existed for decades. For many Americans, these arguments stayed around the edges while jobs, homes, and children occupied the center.
When getting ahead feels impossible, people start looking for scapegoats. They audit every dollar of foreign aid. Israel becomes a target. Iran becomes a target. They can’t buy a home, so they pick a fight with the world instead.
Iran’s regime has been tyrannical for 47 years and has American blood on its hands. I’m proud the president finally acted. I also believe affordable starter homes and cheap gas would have left young voters far less consumed by foreign fights.
Congressional Republicans asked for the opportunity to fix it, and congressional Republicans failed. Some policies may need longer to work. Fair enough. Families still have bills, and elections don’t offer extensions because Washington needs another quarter to keep playing.
For 2028, keep the winning agenda: protect girls’ sports, require voter ID and citizen-only voting, secure the border, conduct mass deportations, and unleash American energy. Put families and freedom ahead of endless foreign entanglements and Washington process.
Put starter homes at the center, too.
I don’t pretend to have the perfect housing solution. Republicans keep telling us AI and SI are the future. Fine. Take the technology for a test drive. Ask their favorite models, bots, whatever they call them, for proposals. Find the recommendations where they agree, check whether they hold up, and incorporate the ones worth pursuing.
Voters have already shown they’ll support conservative ideas. Now Republicans need to earn their trust by making the American dream affordable again.
Lovely speeches, gentlemen. Where are the house keys?
Funniest Things:
Gross.
What else could it be?
Please, no!
The good ol' days
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