The 2026 midterms will go down as one of the worst cycles for Republicans in modern times. In key congressional, legislative, and local races around the country, Democrats crushed their GOP foes, winning U.S. Senate seats in the likes of Texas, Iowa, Kansas, and the Carolinas; capturing the U.S. House by a surprisingly comfortable margin; and flipping several Republican governorships and legislative chambers.
But was conservatism itself defeated? Hardly. While the GOP is, indeed, the movement’s main political vehicle, American conservatism’s founding principles of liberty, order, family, federalism, and free enterprise cannot be negated by a single election cycle, even one as cobalt blue as the one we just witnessed.
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