According to this thesis, if Democrats want to win power, they will have to radically change their positions. That’s the conventional wisdom when it comes to the Michigan Senate race. Practically no one is doing the same for his GOP opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers, who has tacked so far right that he has become a Midwestern hologram of the president. And, once again, the media is falling back on the same old fear-mongering about the left alienating the Real Americans. In 2024, when Rogers ran for the Senate against Elissa Slotkin, who would go on to win the race, he needed Trump’s endorsement.