we're all used to the genre of election postmortems particularly in election where democrats feel they should have won or they worry they won by margins that were too narrow. most recently remember this happened after the 2020 presidential election. joe biden won, okay. the entire universe of discourse for weeks is what did dems do wrong, it shouldn't have been so close, lots of hang ringing even after defeating an incumbent president which is hard to do. but because republicans are caught in the throes of this trump cult and it big lie you just never see any of that from them. this week we saw an enormous failure from the republican party in the recall election of the governor gavin newsom. the governor was completely