Tuesday, November 4, 2025 was a very bad night. Democrats won all over the place, from an insane redistricting plan in California to the election of an islamofascist Hamas supporter to the New York mayoralty.
Real Americans are understandably depressed, but they shouldn’t be.
While Republicans had good reason to hope for a little better luck in a couple of the 2025 elections because the Democrats nominated such awful candidates, they were still Democrat jurisdictions. The states of Virginia and New Jersey, and the cities of Boston, New York, Minneapolis, and so many more, have all been Democrat-majority for years. Republican hopes were for unlikely upsets that didn’t happen, that’s all.
So this is not a time for depression; the night went as we should have expected.
That being said, the night highlighted the need for the Right to work harder in the months to come, in preparation for the 2026 midterms.
Democrat turnout was strong, along the lines of a presidential election. Republican turnout wasn’t. Why not? Governorships and mayoralties matter just as much to the voter’s daily life as a presidency does, and one’s vote is proportionally more significant in these. We need the Republican voters to better appreciate the value of non-presidential elections.
We don’t know how much vote fraud there was. It is never zero – between noncitizens voting and people casting ballots on behalf of family members, living and dead, and so many other methods, we know there is vote fraud in every election. We don’t know how much, but we know that even if it doesn’t always make the difference, we know it can. And until we crack down on vote fraud, we can only assume it will grow. Politicians who don’t obey their solemn oath to obey the Constitution aren’t suddenly going to grow a conscience and suddenly obey a statute against ballot-stuffing.
We must recognize that there are many different demographics to reach, and we cannot neglect whole swaths of voters while we simply cater to the base. President Trump has shown us how to reach out to groups that Republicans didn’t know how to speak to for years. If we say we will be the representatives “of all the people,” then we must prove it, by speaking to the issues of the blue collar as well as the white collar, the immigrants as well as the WASPs, the Catholics and Jews as well as the Protestants, and so forth. President Trump got coal miners and fishermen, textile workers and the unemployed, to vote for him because he intended to focus on their sectors. Every Republican candidate needs to be broadminded enough to do that. Candidates must be multitaskers, not one-trick ponies.
We must enforce the law. Democrats are now comfortable nominating people who were corrupt in past offices (cf. Cuomo and Clinton), people who obtained their citizenship illegally (cf. Mamdani and Omar), and people who fund their campaigns with blatantly illegal foreign contributions (cf. Obama and Biden). Democrats arrest Republican politicians who haven’t even done anything; it’s time we started prosecuting corrupt Democrat candidates and campaign staffs, and bouncing them off the ballot when it’s deserved.
We must return to the rule of law. This country is a Constitutional republic, and all fifty states are constitutionally structured as well. Every political office in the country is constitutionally limited in what the winner is allowed to do, and still the Democrats promise to do all sorts of things if they win that they would not be legally allowed to do anyway. They promise outright socialism, a litany of promises that are rightly banned by the American system of government. We need to call them on it in our campaigns, and be sure to follow through and stop this unconstitutional overreach if they win. We need to expose that fact that half or more of the promises of a Mamdani, Spanberger or Sherrill are empty promises, because they can’t legally do any of these things anyway. And rightly so.
And we must campaign intelligently: every candidate for city council or state rep can’t be expected to afford the kind of campaigning that’s necessary to compete with the deep pockets of the American marxists. The Republican party – and the PACs that support it – need to nationalize our elections, champion the entire GOP slate and attack the entire Democrat slate, in radio ads, in TV commercials, and in social media ads – rather than making every individual GOP candidate sink or swim on his own.
The GOP is right on the issues, with candidates who truly care about saving America’s future. But they can’t save anything if they’re outmaneuvered and outspent by foreign-funded criminals, liars and marxists who never even get called out for their fatal flaws.
Copyright 2025 John F. Di Leo
John F. Di Leo is a Chicagoland-based international transportation and trade compliance trainer and consultant. President of the Ethnic American Council in the 1980s and Chairman of the Milwaukee County Republican Party in the 1990s, his book on vote fraud (The Tales of Little Pavel), his political satires on the Biden-Harris administration (Evening Soup with Basement Joe, Volumes I, II, and III), and his first nonfiction book, “Current Events and the Issues of Our Age,” are all available in either eBook or paperback, only on Amazon.
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