Requiem: Dies iudicii advenit (The day of judgment has come)

This is a political requiem for Kari Lake, Kari, had a chance to be a positive, forward-thinking conservative leader in Arizona for another generation. She is articulate, photogenic, and because of her profession, comfortable with being in the spotlight. She had charisma. People liked her. That is until she became a rabid Trumplican personal loyalist politician. Instead of an issue-driven one. She could have gone far, now who knows where she goes now.  

She may stay in politics, which is a possibility. but to do that she is going to have to pivot from the rabid Trumplican she is currently, to a more mainstream moderate Republican. From being an attack dog to a unifier. A unifier of conservative ideology. An ideology that supports, opportunity, safety, compassion, and a vision for the future, that includes everyone, not just those who voted for her. Instead of the rabid hate filled ogre that she is. She has lost her way. She lost her way because she has been an Independent, a Democrat, a Republican, and her current incarnation Trumplican. She has not decided what she wants to be when she grows up politically. She has been extreme in all these incarnations, and if she wishes to participate in Arizona elections in the future, she needs to take a good look at herself, and the body politic. Or she might do what she does best, be on tv.  

Kari may go the path least traveled, right wing extremist news and opinion pundit. She may get offers from popular right wing news agencies like Fox News, or The Blaze. She may go to One News Network, or Newsmax. She is image conscience, knows how to drive ratings, and is good at it. That is her special power. Time will only tell if she understands the demographics of a national audience. I see her going to Fox News as a fill in for Jesse, Greg, Sean, or Tucker, to see if she has the start power to ascend to the next level. She first though must decide whether she goes to court or not with the fraud nonsense.  

That will be the telling sign. If she goes ahead with the court battles, she is all in with negative politics. If she goes that route she is done in politics in Arizona, because the public is tired of that, the midterms told her that. Republicans are not dead in Arizona, Trumplicans, and Kari are. Even the equally rabid and politically worthless Arizona state lawmaker Wendy Rogers, has contemplated that she may have been wrong. She is trying to figure out what happened. Kari, Wendy, Mark, Blake, all the rest of the Trumplicans that lost are looking for answers, most are claiming fraud, some are blaming the slowness of the count, and some are considering the message. It was the message. The fact that there was none. No message other than 2020 fraud, extreme unlawful solutions to complex problems state, and nationwide. The midterms should have been about the economy, and how most Americans are not doing well. The high cost of living and inflation used to cost a political party in an election and wins elections for others. If the Republicans, and Trumplicans would have concentrated on the economy, and not the vendetta against Biden, or the 2020 election "big lie," and been less extreme, then more of them including Kari might have won. Maybe there would have been a red wave, like there was in 1994. They misread the body politic. Dies iudicii advenit, judgement day has arrived Kari.