Republicans have always seen elections as a litmus test for the people of america, not a process of American selecting the policies they want enacted.
A republican didn’t win, the problem is not with policy, the problem is that the people were wrong to not side with them and opposing parties were wrong to be opposing parties.
I mean hell look at when Pat McCrory lost his re-election campaign in North Carolina because he made hb2, the big bathroom law, the centerpiece of his legacy.
State Congress immediately passed rules saying that the governor of North Carolina had no political power and was mostly just a figurehead, and we had a lot of comments from supporters of McCrory in North Carolina congress saying that although they lost on hb2, “That they still refused to acknowledge wrong as right”
And basically put up a bill saying that we could repeal hb2 as long as we agreed that hb2 was the best idea anyone ever had and we should probably never go against it again.
The person, Roy Cooper, who ousted McCrory was a lawyer who had none of it and basically counted the fucking ways that all of this was not only unconstitutional, but incredibly pathetic