Who’s Going to Win the Georgia Runoff?

It’s still hugely important!

The midterms on Tuesday, for many people, were a massive relief. Maybe your party didn’t win every election, maybe some people you didn’t like didn’t win, maybe there were some Pyrrhic victories. But on the whole: The crazy people lost. Election deniers, Trump henchmen, people screaming on Newsmax … almost all of them lost. It felt like a collective “knock it off, assheads” from the American electorate. It was cleansing and a relief. There will still be embarrassing people in Congress — Marjorie Taylor Greene still walks amongst us — but on the whole: The whole thing felt refreshingly sane.

But there’s still one more potential embarrassment to take care of.

Look: I love Herschel Walker. I live in Athens, Georgia, and am a season ticket holder to Georgia football (and Georgia men’s and women’s basketball). I cheer every time Sanford Stadium shows the highlight of Herschel running over that poor Tennessee linebacker before every game. There is a little part of me that cringes every time someone calls him “stupid” or “slow” or “crazy,” considering how much Walker has struggled with his mental health and how forthright he has generally been about his issues, both past and present. For all his faults — as a person and especially as a political candidate — I think people generally want…