By Msgr. Richard C. Antall, Crisis Magazine, Nov. 15, 2022
Monsignor Antall is pastor of Holy Name Parish in the Diocese of Cleveland. He is the author of The X-Mass Files (Atmosphere Press, 2021), and The Wedding (Lambing Press, 2019).
The Democrats’ much-vaunted escaping of the Red Wave had much to do with pouring money into advertising. Why don’t we hear more about that?
Will Rogers said years ago that the United States of America had the best Congress money can buy. The same is true of the Congress that will meet in January 2023. The campaign expenditures were more than $16 billion for the inconclusive results, and yet there has been little comment about that.
I suppose the mainstream media does not want to complicate their “narrative” about the rejection of Republican radicalism or pro-life concerns in the results of the midterms. I saw one cartoon in The New Yorker in which two people are watching returns and one says to the other something to the effect of “So billions of dollars were spent to get back to where we were?” …