New Orleans        Far-left liberals have taken over the state of Louisiana!  Don’t take my word for it.  This comes directly from the horse’s mouth in the post-election comments made by Louisiana’s Trump mini-me governor, Jeff Landry.  Oh, and billionaire George Soros somehow helped, though it’s a mystery how, but Landry must have wanted to inject a little bit of wannabe Hungary into the mishmash of his comments about the ass whipping administered by the voters over the fate of the four constitutional amendments he pushed onto the ballot in order to create a new state order in Louisiana.

Here are the facts that the governor felt so important to try and paper over, as best he could.

• Amendment 1, where he wanted to create special courts and discipline for attorneys, polled 35% for with 221,334 voters and was walloped at 65% by 412,083 pinko voters.
• Amendment 2, which was the heart of Landry’s so-called reform program and would have allowed changes in the constitution around taxing and budgeting to give him a freer hand he wanted to give business incentives, was beaten once again by 35% to 65% in a landslide rejection with another 410,083 saying “no way” and only 224, 085 going along.
• Amendment 3 sought to change the sentencing for juveniles in a get-tough-on-crime two-step and fell even harder with 34% and 212,324 voting yes and 66% and 419,366 voting a hard no.
• Amendment 4 was an effort to change judge elections, which probably seemed irrelevant to many, but polled 36% to 64%, if you call that slap down a relative winner with 229,597 for and 401,499 against.

When the best you can do is sell a shade over a third of the voters on your program, I guess the choices for Governor Landry were either shut the heck up or blame someone else, which for him was a no-brainer, drawn from what seems a universal right-wing gaslighting program these days.

Louisiana has a hard-earned reputation these days as a deep red state, but waking up and reading the election numbers and finding there are more than 400,000 far lefties turning the tables on the crazy has to mean something big.  Landry can dissemble all he wants, but politics is politics, and legislators and elected around the state will see this as a mortal blow and take steps to avoid the rising tide of opposition from coming to close to where they stand.

Friends and family WhatsApp groups were cracking wise that Louisiana had just become a purple state.  Given the number of bruises, we have taken from too many state and national politicians from the Speaker of the US House and governor on down, it could be that explains the purple shades of black and blue.  Maybe not?  Louisiana voters, left, middle, and right, just sent a powerful message from the ballot box that there are limits to all of these power plays.  Attention must be paid.  They aren’t to be taken for granted.  Louisiana cities have long been blue.  More shenanigans like these right-wing power plays and the purple suburbs might join all of the blue voters who know that high prices and bad policies can hurt them and name-calling, even as far left liberals, can be a badge of honor and cause no pain at all.