How wrecked GOP must rebuild, getting tired of winning and other commentary

Conservative: How Wrecked GOP Must RebuildThe core cause of Tuesday’s epic Republican losses is clear, explains Henry Olsen at The Washington Post: “Independents combined with a significant number of non-MAGA Republicans to reject the Trump GOP.” Democrats won “independents by 17 points” and “about 15 percent of non-MAGA Republicans” plus about “98 percent of Democrats,” an “almost unheard-of” party unity.“Every Republican gerrymander failed,” and just about “every place with any significant farm sector swung massively against Republicans.” In all, “the consequences of Trump’s decision to ignore public opinion throughout his second term have now been laid bare.” Now that “much of the Trump GOP has come crashing down,” bet that “any Republican with an eye on the future will be looking for a new set of plans for the rebuilding.”Republican: Getting Tired of ‘Winning’?The president “has managed to tarnish the MAGA brand so much that now it has a higher unfavorable rating than the Democratic Socialists of America,” marvels Kevin Igoe at The Hill.

With a terrible approval rating, Trump still asked “voters to pretend he was on the ballot” — an act of “pure political malpractice.” He pushed Sens.Thom Tillis and Jodi Ernst into retiring, and Dems won both seats; he tapped Ken Paxton and Darline Graham to run in Texas and South Carolina, and both lost.

Worst of all was “his preoccupation with issues most voters did not care about”: “As American families became more and more concerned about the rising costs of groceries, the president told them those price increases were ‘peanuts’ and a Democratic ‘hoax.’ ”Libertarian: Stop Doing Foreigners’ Dirty WorkUS companies should quit “doing dirty work for foreign censors,” thunders Jack Verrill at Reason.“When Russia designated the Human Rights Foundation as ‘undesirable’ earlier this year,” HRF soon got “a notice demanding it block Russia...