THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 149 — Can 2026 Please End? Anakin Memes? California Throuples?

The neoconservative faction is out in force now, trying to make excuses for how the midterms were not a referendum on their hugely unpopular war against Iran. The team reacts, then talks to Christopher Rufo, who explains why this week doesn’t discredit the so-called “New Right.” Andrew Wilson joins for a post-midterm subscriber AMA.

Polls and our own eyes indicate the Iran war played a disastrous role in the 2026 midterms. If that’s the case, should anybody take the blame? Sean Davis weighs in and the team invites listener emails on whether anybody in Trumpworld deserves to lose his or her job. Apostate Prophet Ridvan Aydemir reacts to America having its first Islamic senator. Auron MacIntyre dissects the sources of Tuesday’s shellacking.

After a painful election night, we have no choice but to pick up and move forward. Will Chamberlain, Rich Baris, and others dissect the results. The team highlights the small pieces of good news from Tuesday’s results, the lessons to be learned from an ugly political defeat, and how Republicans must pivot to avoid further disasters in 2028 and beyond.

It all comes down to this: Months of campaigning, canvassing, debating, phone banking and more. Now, it all goes to the voters. So vote like your country depends on it, because it does. Tyler Bowyer, Steve Bannon, and Alex Marlow all join to rally the bases and look at early tea leaves, while border czar Tom Homan reminds voters of the massive immigration wins of the past two years that must not be surrendered to the left’s extremism.