Tim Miller cites Loomer's "rampant Islamophobia" and says the Republican focus on Hasan Piker "didn't work at all"
Tim MillerHost of The Bulwark Podcast, speaking on The Bulwark's video show The Trio
On The Bulwark's The Trio, Miller says the discussion of Loomer's posts brings Hasan Piker to mind given what he calls her rampant Islamophobia, and says that the Republican effort to make the campaign in Michigan and other states about Piker's comments did not work.
“You know, this Loomer conversation, given her like rampant Islamophobia, does bring to mind HasanAbi. The Republicans tried to make their entire campaign in Michigan and a couple of these other states about Hasan's bad comments on his YouTube stream. For some reason, that didn't work at all.”
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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.
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Episode of The Bulwark's video show The Trio, posted on its YouTube channel, in which Tim Miller, Sam Stein and Will Sommer discuss the midterm results. From about 16:29 the hosts show a graphic of Loomer's posts on X since the election, Sommer describes several of them, and Miller compares them with the Republican campaign focus on the streamer Hasan Piker. The Bulwark also posted part of this segment as a short video, "Laura Loomer Is Crashing Out." Quotations are from our transcript of the video's audio.
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The hosts had been discussing a graphic of Loomer's posts on X after the election, and Will Sommer had described several of them. HasanAbi is the online name of the left-wing streamer Hasan Piker.
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Miller adds that Democrats never made their campaign about Loomer, which he puts down to their campaigning on issues people care about, and then turns to a request Piker had made of the show.
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The reference point is Laura Loomer's response to the November 3, 2026 midterm results: her posts saying that America is over and attributing the Republican losses to a takeover by communists and jihadists. In a discussion of those posts, which blame Muslims and jihadists for the losses, Miller says Loomer has rampant Islamophobia and that the Republican campaign built around Piker's comments failed. He criticizes Loomer and offers a different reading of the result, so the label is condemns rather than a dispute over wording.
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