Paul Jacob’s assessment of Donald Trump’s success, last Tuesday — “King and Kingslayer” — was kept a tad open-ended, considering the Trumpian juggernaut’s biggest challenge was in Kentucky’s Representative District No. 4, where incumbent Thomas Massie was meeting Trump’s man in electoral battle. Massie lost. Here is the start of WLWT5’s report:
Reactions to the race have been . . . mixed. Or, divided.
On one side, we can witness Ben Shapiro of The Daily Wire assessing the situation in . . . uh, what kind of terms are these? What’s the right adjective for this?
Thomas Massie versus President Donald Trump. Online versus reality. Woke right versus traditional Trump right.
And Trump won. Reality won.
It turns out the future still belongs to the rational Right.
It belongs to President Trump.
Reality? From that fabulist fibber, Trump?
Others are astounded at how someone who barely campaigned at all (except with TV ads) — this Ed “No Debater” Gallrein — increased voter turnout so astoundingly:
And is this yielding positive results for the mid-terms? And how about Trump’s approval ratings? Here are the latest results on that, from Friday’s aggregations:
- New York Times: 38% approve, 58% disapprove
- Silver Bulletin: 38.4% approve, 58.5% disapprove
- RealClearPolitics Poll Average: 39.8% approve, 58.2% disapprove
But remember, Thomas Massie is still in office, and he is still on X:
