Jonah Goldberg

That is still a heavy lift.

But if you actually have a real wave, which there are reasons to think that there is going to be a Democratic wave.

It does put it in play.

Republicans are definitely worried about putting the Senate in play.

And so I think it's going to be a good Democratic night.

The question is how good is depends on your expectations.

But it's just very hard for me to imagine that Democrats don't take back the House and at least tighten the margin in the Senate.

Yeah.

So with the absolute concession that Democrats could screw this up,

The simple fact is that it is an outrage that Congress no longer does its job, that Congress is run along partisan lines rather than along institutional lines.

And I can do chapter and verse of how we got here, but the simple fact is the GOP-controlled Congress, at least in its orientation, I'm not talking about their eternal souls, is just shot through with what social scientists call cowards.

It's embarrassing.

It's terrible.

So like the end of that sentence is not necessarily support for the cult, the beginning of it.

And so far as for some people, it's definitely a cult of personality.

It's that they love his musk.

They think he's a genius.

They think he's like a world historical figure.

They look at him the way Champ Kind looks at Ron Burgundy in the Anchorman movies.

Right.