Day 7: Flipping Off

As disappointing as the Presidential election turned out to be for Republicans, it's a different story in Congress. The GOP has currently claimed 50 seats in the Senate, with two more potentially next month. Then there's the House, where Republicans — very slowly, for whatever reason — are flipping seats bit by bit, inching closer and closer to parity with the Democrats. The left will continue to hang on to the House, but just barely, in a year when they were supposed to make gains.

So far, 12 seats have flipped in the House:

CA39 Young Kim
CA48 Michelle Steel
FL27 Maria Elvira Salazar
FL26 Carlos Gimenez
IA01 Ashley Hinson
MI03 Peter Meijer
MN07 Michelle Fischbach
NY11 Nicole Malliotakis
NM02 Yvette Herrell
OK05 Stephanie Bice
SC01 Nancy Mace
UT04 Burgess Owens

That's not necessarily a "wave" election, but in a year when every single poll suggested the Republicans would be losing seats, a 12-seat gain is significant. It's going to make a much bigger difference in the Senate if Mitch McConnell remains Majority Leader and Biden has to work with a Republican-controlled Senate in order to get his cabinet picks. It makes for a very interesting set-up where a Democrat party that is hoping desperately to push Biden left is going to have to sit and watch him moderate for four years (1453 days).

Day 6: Mass Exodus

Since Election Day, I've noticed something of a mass exodus among my friends on social media to alternative, free-speech friendly platforms such as Parler, MeWe, and Wimkin (but not Gab, strangely enough). This comes along with the same wave that's ditching Fox News in favor of NewsMax (or OAN) and Rumble in favor of YouTube. For years now, whenever Facebook or Twitter bans a conservative for seemingly no reason, the left will just laugh and say, "They're a private company! They can do whatever they want! If you don't like it, build your own Facebook!"

Well, now people seem to be taking that call more seriously. Something about the election caused a dam to break. I think part of it is the obnoxious alerts YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter are plastering everywhere, reminding everyone that Joe Biden won, the election was fair, and anyone suggesting tere was fraud is going to be slapped.

Whatever the reason, all my conservative friends are actually leaving for other platforms for the first time. This, of course, was on the one thing keeping these platforms from being successful — actual users. None of these friends, as far as I know, have been censored in any meaningful way, but they're leaving more as a form of protest.

But now I'm wondering if the left are right are only going to create their own echo chambers as a result.

Day 5: Unity? Since when?

Democrats are all about "unity" right now, and demanding that Republicans accept the election results that have yet to be completely finalized. CNN is also sharing a list of GOP senators who — gasp and shock — haven't yet congratulated Joe Biden on his apparent election victory.

But go back four years, and CNN also had a long, long list of Democrats refusing to attend President Trump's inauguration — many of them citing "Russian hacking" or other conspiracy theories that suggested the election back then was rigged.

So yes, of course we have to have "unity" now that they've won. Just wait four years (1455 days) and we'll see what excuse they have to claim the next Republican President is somehow illegitimate.

Related: These Democrats aren't attending Trump's inauguration

Day 4: Dead Votes Matter

 Mainstream news and social media all seem to be very coordinated in telling everyone, "Joe Biden won the election and there is no widespread voter fraud." Except there is some voter fraud. It probably isn't enough to change the overall election results, but if there are dead people voting in major cities, something ought to be done about it.

And the problem is, the only ones who seem to be calling this sort of thing out are those on the right, the ones who feel disenfranchised by this last election and many of whom think there's so much voter fraud that Trump is sure to have been the real winner — once we root it all out. But because Democrats see themselves as having won, they have no interest in scrutinizing the results.

Related: Smokin' Joe Frazier Among 22 Dead People Who Still Vote In Philly

In other news, a USPS whistle-blower brought forth by Project Veritas may or may not be recanting his story ofelection fraud. But who really knows?

Day 3: The Covid Vaccine

The big news of today is that a vaccine for Covid-19 seems to be right around the corner. This is the kind of news that might have made all the difference in the election results had it been released a week or two earlier, but any light at the end of this pandemic tunnel is good news for everyone.

Well, not everyone, of course. Democrats like Andrew Cuomo don't like the idea of Covid being over before Joe Biden takes office. Weasels like Anthony Scaramucci are even trying to give Biden credit for the vaccine, as if he had anything to do with it. Everything about this virus has been politicized, but like it or not, we have a vaccine coming in record time — and it's thanks to President Trump and "Operation Lightspeed." That's one shining difference between the parties at this point — one side wants a cure and an end to this virus, while the other just wants lockdowns and masks, masks, and more masks.

Day 2: The Remnant

 

Only 1,458 days left until Election Day 2024.

So what's happening with the 71+ million who voted for Trump? Many of us seem to be moving to Parler. The big tech social media monopoly has been busy censoring conservatives over the past year, so users have been longing for an alternative platform somewhere out there. It only seems to have accelerated since election day, though. (My Parler handle is @rightcheer, naturally.)

In addition, Trump voters have been sorely put off my Fox News, which called Arizona for Biden the second the polls closed, even as voters were still standing in line, despite the margin being so slim that even Nate Silver at 538 said later it was a mistake. The network of choice seems to be NewsMax, with several people on my feed declaring Fox News is dead to them. I'm not sure what effect this will have on Fox News, but it leaves me wondering what will happen to the many previously conservative-friendly outfits, websites, and politicians who are starting to cater to the left.

Day 1: the first day of the 2024 Campaign

The Next Election Begins Today

It's been four days since election day — four days since President Trump was leading in Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, only to see those leads evaporate in the midst of a highly contested counting process. Even as the media declared Joe Biden the winner today, the lawsuits continue, and half the country seems convinced the election while stolen while the other half is busy celebrating (and conveniently forgetting we're supposed to be in a pandemic).

These last four years weren't supposed to have happened. Hillary Clinton was supposed to be running for re-election. But the polls were wrong in 2016, just as they were wrong now. And even though Trump seems to have lost, the GOP has made gains in the House and will hopefully keep the Senate. More minorities in every category voting Republican this time around, and there is a major repudiation of the left-wing socialist agenda underway, whether the left sees it or not in the midst of a Biden victory.

We have 1,459 days left before the next Presidential Election, and 731 days until the midterms. It's going to feel like an eternity, but I'm going to count every one of them and keep a record of this journey along the way. I expect the next four years are going to be very exciting for the conservative movement, and I want to be right there on the front lines at the very beginning. After this week, I know it can feel like your world is coming to an end. But no, it's just beginning. It starts here.

Welcome to day one.