Welcome back to Good Life, a newsletter about navigating our modern culture and staying sane in the process. This week, we discuss the closed-door vote that explains the Republican Party’s position.
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It’s been a week since the 2026 midterm results, and the national psyche around them feels even more chaotic than before. Everyone has theories as to why the Republican Party was unceremoniously kicked out of power. Pick your poison. It was the war. It was the economy. It was the economy and the war. Some are even running election-fraud scenarios.
One thing we know for sure is that this wasn’t a rubber stamp on the Democratic Party’s crazy antics over the last ten years. It wasn’t a mandate to impeach the president or his cabinet. It was an all-out rebuke of the establishment Republican Party leadership, which always fails to govern when Americans need them most. And we found out last night that, despite a plethora of analysis painting a big, fat red bullseye on them, Senate Republicans have made zero effort to conduct even the mildest introspection.
All the data leading up to last Tuesday pointed towards Republicans losing control of the House. That was a given. However, there was a high probability that the GOP would hold onto power in the Senate. Now, Democrats could have as many as 56 Senate seats going into the new Congress. That should have been enough for everyone involved in Senate GOP leadership to bow out. If a CEO presided over a failure of this magnitude, he’d resign or, at the very least, department heads would roll. But no. Of the six key Senate leadership positions, the GOP conference reelected five.
The most egregious being John Thune. How Thune was able to stay in power over the now-minority conference is an absolute mystery. That is, of course, unless you were paying close attention to the GOP blockade. Tuesday’s closed-door votes can only be considered a reward for a job well done on behalf of the establishment. His post full of ego-stroking language was the obvious tell.