One can micro-analyze serveral races in the last election and speculate regarding the how and why certain outcomes occurred. I’m going to just note one example of an election having consequences.
Texas has, up to now, been a stronghold of conservatism. It’s governor, Greg Abbott, held traditional conservative views on immigration. Like most conservatives, and most sane people, he wasn’t opposed to legal immigration, where new citizens are vetted to insure that they are decent, productive and law-abiding citizens.
Governor Abbot lost the Texas Governor’s race to a virtually unknown. No doubt voters “wanted a change” the cliché statement made in every election.
It has often been stated that the many people leaving coastal liberal enclaves should not bring their leftist politics with them when they escape to more orderly states. If one leaves California because of high taxes, homelessness, nanny government, and illegal immigrant violence, one would hope such people would wish to keep the positive attributes of their new home (in places like Texas) and not bring dystopian standards from the places they escaped from.
The new governor has made it known that she will officially no longer cooperate with immigration enforcement (who are enforcing laws passed by congress and acted on under previous presidents up to the Biden debacle).
More icing on the “progressive” cake; she will no longer rein in so-called “sanctuary cities,” in effect laying the welcome mat to random unknown migrants (which will include violent criminals, drug and human trafficers, and in some cases terrorists.
While some may cheer on the ideal of low-cost landscaping and “diversity,” the inevitable truth will be far more sinister.
During the looming Democrat rule in Texas, among other things, classrooms will become clogged with more chaos and ineffectiveness. The healthcare system will become overburdened and in need of dramatically greater funding from higher taxation (just like the states many voters left).
Most tragic of all, and past examples makes this inevitable, someone’s loved one will be raped, tortured, and murdered. If the victims are “lucky” they’ll merely be killed by a drunk driver in the country illegally.
Cliché or not…elections have consequences.