Evan McMullin

If conservatives interpreted Barry Goldwater’s defeat in 1964 the way Trump supporters are being told to interpret the 2022 midterms, there would be no conservative movement today. Of course, the 1964 election was an actual defeat, while this year’s elections were an advance for the new Republican right, which succeeded in its first task — gaining power in the GOP — and has strengthened its hand in Congress. The right has picked up a Senate seat with Ohio’s J.D. Vance, and Republicans look likely to control the House of Representatives come January. The GOP won the majority of votes cast in House races, nearly 52 percent overall. The official narrative of the election is meant to drive the right to suicide.

Many Republican observers of the Utah Senate race have noted Evan McMullin's obviously false claims at anything approaching ideological conservatism. But it strikes me that this is the wrong understanding of the bald Mormon CIA agent who seeks to unseat constitutional conservative Senator Mike Lee. McMullin is more properly understood as a deep state plant who will represent the interests of the likes of Peter Strzok if elected by voters apparently unaware of his completely fictionalized position matrix. I interviewed McMullin when he was running against Donald Trump as a "principled conservative," hoping to twist Utah into the Democratic column and drive the 2016 presidential stakes into the Congress.