It's difficult to determine which news from yesterday is the best news for Democrats since the beginning of the year. I will continue to insist that speeches in Congress are not going to be enough, but Cory Booker's marathon speech in the Senate yesterday will go down in history for more than just its record length. He accomplished something for those resisting what is going on with Trump and Musk, boosting momentum and laying things out in a way that got some media attention. So much for Democrats not being able to stay on message, huh?

The combination of the overall size of the turnout, the movement of voters in every single county to the left of where they were in 2024, and the 10 point margin by which Susan Crawford won her election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, added to the fact that Trump and Musk were heavily invested in the Republican candidate, sent a very, very strong message that I believe can be interpreted as, "Get Musk out of Washington now, and dial back the executive orders and the Project 2025 nonsense, or you're going to become completely irrelevant after the 2026 mid-term elections."

Trump is simply not capable of sustaining support, at least, not beyond the limits of his base, which make up maybe 30% of the electorate, give or take a point or two. The media makes a big deal, he's on television all the time, people forget how decrepit he looks, how demented and confused is his speech--a couple of his recent Sunday appearances were downright pathetic--and then he touches something and it blows up. In a state where the last few Presidential elections have been literally razor thin in their margins, and in which Musk made a judicial seat race into a referendum on his performance with DOGE and on the Trump Presidency, and then tried to buy it by putting in almost $25 million, an unusually high turnout made an 11 point swing back to the left in every county in the state.