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The 2026 midterm election ends in America herald the victory of the left over the proper, common individuals over billionaires, and — if the memes are to be believed — the hotties over the chopped. On Tuesday, quite a few progressive challengers defeated growing old Institution sorts and MAGA ghouls. Now, the long run seems to be fairly good — like, actually. Lots of our Democratic electeds are straightforward on the eyes.
I’m simply the messenger. For months main as much as the election, the hopeful and sexy have been thirsting over Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s senator-elect (quickly to be America’s first-ever Muslim senator) and his 315-pound-benchpressing muscular tissues; even Fox Information host Jesse Waters couldn’t assist drooling over him. Georgia senator John Ossoff is each a father and, nicely, an web Father. Rob Sand, the governor-elect of Iowa, is definitely a former Prada mannequin. Colorado representative-elect Manny Rutinel is a Ru-ten out of ten. And let’s not neglect the ladies: One other Colorado representative-elect with a generational face card? Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old grad scholar and lawyer. No matter moisturizer has Georgia governor-elect Keisha Lance Bottoms glowing like that, I would like it. Plus the upcoming election of DSA’s Nithya Raman as Los Angeles’s mayor means we’ll have dimples-in-chief working America’s two largest cities.
Now, let’s be clear: It’s harmful to equate attractiveness with good morals and good politics. However anybody campaigning for an finish to the Iran conflict and for Medicare for All, it doesn’t matter what they appear like, is attractive. And it isn’t simply El-Sayed’s fitted black T-shirts or Ossoff’s wavy brown hair, for instance, that make them enticing; it’s their vitality and eagerness to get the job accomplished. To paraphrase the unofficial bard of Woke 3.0, Olivia Rodrigo, “indecision is painfully unattractive.” Significant motion, however? A complete turn-on.
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