NYT: Inside Team Trump's historic collapse in the 2026 midterms

“Some days, Mr. Trump told advisers privately: “We’ve gotta win. Anything we gotta do.” On others, he sounded as if he couldn’t care less. “It says something very nice about me that they just can’t win without me,” he told aides.” Hahaha holy shit www.nytimes.com/2026/11/04/u...

Our team did a quick analysis of the major election rumors (and stories that we saw rumoring and conspiracy theorizing around) yesterday on X. Most faded away as results came in (and Trump acknowledged the GOP losses): uwcip.substack.com/p/election-r...

Democrats overcame Texas redistricting, winning all but one of the state's newly gerrymandered seats. They also flipped two more border districts, TX-15 and TX-23. Read this post-election analysis from the CPR team:

Six days before the election, more than two dozen Trump strategists logged onto a private video call. The mood was grim. The talk turned to cyanide. “Do you want the white pill first, or the black pill first?" @shanegoldmacher.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/11/04/u...

Visual wizardry here from The Guardian's amazing team shows where and how it all went wrong for the Republicans on a night for the ages @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

That column is boring and, I think, wrong but it’s not suggesting that Trump had some genius plan. Here’s the conclusion: www.nytimes.com/2026/11/04/o...

“Soon after Minneapolis, Democrats’ internal polls showed the party taking the edge on immigration for the first time. What had been one of Mr. Trump’s perennial strengths was for a period his top liability, according to one of the president’s senior strategists.” www.nytimes.com/2026/11/04/u...

After Tuesday’s blue wave, right-wing media is pointing fingers over who deserves blame for the GOP collapse, with many simply ready to move on from Trump “We need this party to run separate from him,” Brett Cooper told me www.status.news/p/midterm-el...

"This account of the Republican Party’s collapse is based on interviews with more than 70 people ... who were directly involved in the midterm elections, many of whom were granted anonymity to describe private conversations and decisions." www.nytimes.com/2026/11/04/u...

A historic election night, a MAGA collapse, and victories across the country. New @practivistpod.bsky.social with @bluesboysteve.bsky.social & @jasonberlin.bsky.social practivistpod.com #MSWMedia Listen: redcircle.com/shows/dce195...

There’s some people who think things won’t change whenever Trump goes/leaves and I’ve long disagreed with that because whenever he’s not in charge anymore, *this* is who they have next This dork couldn’t lead a pee wee team let alone the entire cult across the country The most juiceless human

They are frantically trying to find scapegoats or excuses for their historic collapse! The “ministry of propaganda” will produce some BS talking points soon for them . Look for the following favourites: Immigrants voting Stolen ballots Hacked tabulators Islamic conspiracy Canadian meddling

“Trump largely rebuffed suggestions that he moderate his positions, advisers said, sometimes reminding his team that he was the president.” Via WSJ

It’s implicit that Trump enjoyed the prospect of a blue tsunami because it would reveal to the GOP that they were mere slithering worms without him. He kneecapped them in many ways, including withholding campaign funds (intentionally or negligently) for candidates until too late.

There is some interesting stuff in here. I encourage you to read it all the way through, it discusses more than how Trump is an abject failure of a wannabe dictator. www.nytimes.com/2026/11/04/u...