They’ve Learned Absolutely Nothing

Not a damn thing.

Tuesday’s election was a historic victory, but I’m not interested in spending the next two years celebrating while Trump and his cronies keep screwing over the American people. That’s why I built Endless Urgency. We’re creating an independent media platform that confronts right-wing lies, exposes corruption, and helps build a Democratic Party that actually delivers for working people. If you believe in this mission, become a paid subscriber for just $8/month and help us keep going:

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It’s been almost a week since the midterm election, and you’d think that after a historic drubbing, the likes of which we haven’t seen in 50 years, the Republican Party and its MAGA media machine might have learned something.

Yet, it seems they learned absolutely nothing, and I can’t help but chuckle at the arrogance and stupidity of those incompetent boobs who stumbled their way into running this country. If you can even call what they’re doing, “running.”

I watched Trump on 60 Minutes last night, and he doubled down on the great standing of America, as if nothing happened on Tuesday. Then he took a few swipes at his own Vice President, for good measure.

Sure, I think J.D. Vance is an incompetent boob too, but to his credit, he’s been trying to put some distance between himself and the war in Iran. So what does Donald Trump do? He goes on national television and says Vance was a key to its planning, welding him to the single most unpopular thing Trump’s done in this disastrous second term. What a betrayal. In Trump World, loyalty only ever flows in one direction.

He’s talking up Pete Hegseth like the guy is Eisenhower and might keep that moron at the Pentagon. He also elevated Stephen Miller to chief of staff, which tells you exactly where the attacks on immigrant communities are headed.

But nothing captures this moment better than Todd Blanche.

Donald Trump’s personal defense attorney, now the Attorney General of the United States. Days after voters delivered a historic rebuke, Trump went on television and announced that Blanche was now the personal attorney for Stephen Miller, and for anybody else Democrats try to investigate for corruption and abuse of power.

The top law enforcement officer in the country whose job is to serve you, the American people – overseeing national security, civil law, and the agencies meant to protect our country – is openly declaring that his job is to protect the president’s inner circle from accountability. Talk about a cabal of disgusting people circling the wagons.

And this corruption burns straight through the MAGA media machine, too. I’ve been on Newsmax and everywhere else debating these guys every day since the election. And everywhere I go, it’s the same crap: Democrats are communists. Abdul El-Sayed is a jihadist. They’re going to take your job and give it to an immigrant. They’re going to steal your kids in the middle of the night and turn them trans.

It’s deeply embarrassing, and all they can do is default to their programming – racist, homophobic, transphobic, anti-woman slop – because they don’t have a single real answer for anything. I’m going to keep walking into those studios and calling it out to their faces, and the paid subscribers to this newsletter are a big part of why I can.

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The closest anyone on the right has come to reality is Ron DeSantis saying the GOP needs new ideas. He doesn’t have any either, but he’s the only one smart enough to notice.

Meanwhile, Trump isn’t going to work with Democrats on anything meaningful. Anything we pass that helps the American people, he’ll veto, or he’ll sign it because he’s been shamed into it, just like the Epstein Files bill last year.

Say what you will about the Democratic Party, but when we lost to Trump in 2024, we looked inward. Sure, we had our idiotic infighting and messes like the Graham Platner fiasco, but we pulled it together when it mattered most, as the last group of people in American politics who give a damn about decency, democracy, and an economy that works for you instead of the billionaire class.

I was naive enough to think a beating like this might make Republicans look in the mirror for half a second. Maybe Trump won’t be satisfied until Democrats are winning Arkansas and Idaho.

So here’s my message to Democrats: We have the wind at our backs and a wounded opponent who doesn’t understand why they won in 2024, doesn’t understand why they lost in 2026, and has no idea what to do next, in front of us.

A rabid dog is running the White House, and the corruption, the racist memes, and the construction on the ballroom will all continue. Nothing changes unless we shape it.

With the House and the Senate, we finally have the power to do that. We can halt this agenda, end this war, and take back Congress’s authority over tariffs. We can pass basic shit that improves people’s lives, like raising the minimum wage, and bringing back the healthcare subsidies so premiums stop doubling and tripling.

If Trump vetoes it, make him own the veto, and make Republicans own it every time they hide behind the filibuster.

We also need to put the new voices front and center. I’d better see James Talarico on TV every chance he gets, like I did when he was on SNL this weekend. And I’d better see all of these new faces out there selling this agenda, taking back control of the narrative, and getting through to voters. This is our chance to expose how corrupt Trump and the Republicans are and to prove that our government can be a force for good.

Something generational is happening. Because we elected so many Democrats in their 30s and 40s, the average age in the Senate is dropping from about 68 and a half to 62. It’s still too old, but such a monumental drop in one election must mean something.

We should go for broke, recruiting candidates everywhere, recruiting younger ones. Trump will be gone in two years, one way or another, and both parties have a jump ball for their future.

But we can never forget that the average American is hurting right now, and we shouldn’t be cocky about this win. The only reason we won is because Trump broke every promise to make your life better. He made his own life better and his own net worth bigger, but not yours. The real work begins now. Democrats must earn back the trust and faith of the American people. We must convince them that the government can work for you. And we will do that by delivering on the promises we made and restoring the purpose of what we do, which is to be of service to all.

If you think the pendulum can’t swing right back, you are dead wrong. If we fuck this moment up, if we take for granted this opportunity that the people have entrusted us with, it’ll swing back hard, and people will turn to someone even more craven than Trump.

The pendulum swings back when people stop paying attention, and I’m not going to stop. I’ll be in those studios every day holding these people’s feet to the fire, and paid subscribers are how I keep doing it. If this moment matters to you, join them.

Love you guys.

With urgency,

—Mike