A Week Later, I’m Still Living For MAGA Midterm Crashouts

Last week, we witnessed a once-in-a-generation political shift after the Democrats took control of the House and Senate by an overwhelmingly decisive margin. Now, I was glad to see Democrats take back control of Congress and hopefully act as a check against President Donald Trump’s worst impulses. But you know what’s made the midterm elections even sweeter? 

The absolute crash-out by Republicans as they try to cope with the loss. 

So, like most millennials and Gen Z’ers, I tend to keep up with current events through YouTube, short-form video, and the occasional Hasan Piker stream when I’m not working here. I cannot tell you how much fun I’ve been having watching compilations of both mainstream media figures and MAGA influencers coping with the midterm results as they came in. 

Fox News has held water for Trump ever since he came down that escalator 11 years ago. They have found a way to spin every atrocity, failure, and broken promise by the Trump administration as good, actually. It was almost poetic to see what is basically the Republican Broadcasting Network scramble to explain how their party got mollywopped 

Fox News Anchor Bret Baier could be heard on a hot mic asking a producer how they can spin these losses. Sean Hannity was damn near crying by the end of the night, explaining how they lost due to the economy and war in Iran. The decisiveness of the Democrats’ victory was even more satisfying because Trump and GOP operatives couldn’t fall back on their voter fraud lies. For the first time in years, the Republican Party took an undeniable, unequivocal L.

There’s something so satisfying about seeing old-ass edgelord and founder of the Proud Boys, Gavin McInnes, crashing out on Luke Beasley as the results come in. If you’re not familiar with McInnes, he’s genuinely the worst. He’s flagrantly racist, has emboldened some of the worst people you can imagine, and worse yet, has done it all with a smug, self-satisfied attitude. Seeing him crash out over Beasley’s perceived smugness only further exposed how weak and thin-skinned Trump’s biggest acolytes tend to be. 

The same can be said for streamer Asmongold, who is one of the loudest voices in the “Go Woke, Go Broke” crowd and has celebrated many of the atrocities committed by the Trump administration. He’s a gross human by every conceivable metric, and last Tuesday was a hilariously bad night for him. Not only did he rage quit his live stream on election night as more and more Democrat wins came in, but the next day he tried to backpedal like he never supported Trump in the first place. 

The thing that really makes these crash-outs all the more satisfying is that we’ve had to spend the last decade being called some version of libtard, snowflakes who can’t take a joke. Seeing the “F- your feelings” crowd so deep in their feelings can’t help but be satisfying, because these people have played a large role in making American culture take a far crueler turn.

I had to indulge in the schadenfreude while it’s fresh, because this is American politics. I’m happy for everyone that won, but I’m also realistic that the road is still rocky. The Big Beautiful Bill is basically a time-release capsule of awfulness, with some of its worst aspects still on the way. It remains to be seen how Democrats will be able to legislate their way out of the mess Trump and the GOP created. 

For now, I’m taking solace in the fact that the MAGA movement is dead and buried. I’m just hoping the blue tsunami also drowns out the wide array of right-wing grifters across the internet. 

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