There are so many delights in the results of last Tuesday’s midterm elections, but one of the biggest is discovering who South Carolina Sen.-elect Annie Andrews, a Democrat, really is.
In short, she’s one of us.
“The party that elevates Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17 yr old killer, & tears down Gus Walz, a 17 yr old with special needs who loves his dad, is a party that needs to be lit on fire & thrown in the dumpster & plunged into the deepest depths of the ocean never to be seen again,” she wrote in an August 2024 post.
And that wasn’t an anomaly. Andrews has been a doctrinaire liberal in a state hostile to liberals.
A competent conservative effort likely would’ve kneecapped Andrews, despite President Donald Trump’s bizarre decision to saddle the South Carolina GOP with Darline Graham, one of the least qualified senatorial candidates since Alabama’s Tommy Tuberville.
Yet Andrews lucked out—the GOP and its vast right-wing media machine were obsessively focused on Michigan and the prospect of scaaaaary Muslims implementing Shariah law. The disparity in attention is stark, as this chart compiled by X user Louis Riel shows.
Michigan Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed, a Democrat, had more than 4,000 m...