Edward Feser suggests the losses may be punishment for "elevating people like Laura Loomer"

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Laura Loomer says "America is over" after the 2026 midterm elections; Megan Basham and Marjorie Taylor Greene push back

On the night of the November 3, 2026 midterm elections, as results showed Democrats winning control of Congress, Laura Loomer wrote on X that America is over. She wrote that communists and jihadists would open the borders and replace Americans' votes with votes from people in the country illegally, and that the American Dream is dead. Minutes later she answered a post by the conservative commentator Lisa Boothe saying God is in charge by asking why God let the country be taken over by Muslims and communists. The next day she asked Christian nationalists where their God was on election night, and she later wrote that she really believes America is over. Daily Wire reporter Megan Basham replied that her children will inherit the American way of life and urged people to avoid those who say America is over. The actress Carrie Coon disputed Loomer's claim about votes by people in the country illegally, and the Catholic philosopher Edward Feser suggested that the losses might be a punishment for elevating people like Loomer. The journalist Lara Logan agreed with Loomer. Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Harrison H. Smith, a host on the Alex Jones Network, blamed Loomer for the Republican losses, and Loomer accused Greene of working to help Democrats win. Later that week, Loomer announced a hiatus from her livestreamed show, Loomer Unleashed, and said the break is about her upcoming wedding.