Like those stuck on a desert island who can see rescue boats just crossing the horizon, the nation eagerly awaits the possible Republican takeover of the US House.

However, can the stranded inhabitants survive until the rescue arrives? Will they have starved or fallen out to the point of savagery before the naval officers come to their aid? Rep. Tom Emmer, Republican of Minnesota and head of the Republican House campaign effort, is leading the rescue craft and he is mightily motoring to shore.

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As such, Emmer has put a political bullseye on the backs of a number of Democrat incumbents he thinks the GOP can beat in the 2022 midterm elections. If most of history since 1994 is indicative, Emmer is right and even Democrats can see the scenario.

ALERT: 47 House Democrats are on the GOP’s target list for 2022. Our House majority is hanging on by a thread.
Republicans only need to defeat FIVE of our Democrats to take back the House.
If they win, Trump-loyalist Kevin McCarthy will be next Speaker.Our agenda will crumble.

— Carol McCarthy #retiremarcorubio (@carol_33410) April 19, 2021

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FNC: “The campaign arm for House Republicans is adding 10 Democratic lawmakers to its list of 47 seats held by what it considers to be vulnerable Democrats in the chamber that it sees as potential pickup opportunities for the GOP in the 2022 midterm elections. National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) chair Rep. Tom Emmer, in unveiling the expanded list Tuesday, touted that ‘Republicans are on offense all across the country.’

“The announcement comes a week after the U.S. Census Bureau released initial numbers from the 2020 Census. According to the once-in-a-decade congressional apportionment, GOP-controlled states, such as Texas and Florida, are among the states gaining House seats, while California, New York and Illinois, where Democrats control the levers of government, are among the states losing seats. Census data to be released later this year will determine the redistricting process, which is expected to generally favor Republicans over Democrats.

“The new Democrats being spotlighted are Reps. Ami Bera (CA-07), Jim Costa (CA-16) and Raul Ruiz (CA-36) of California, Marie Newman of Illinois (IL-03), Dan Kildee of Minnesota (MI-05), Kathleen Rice (NY-04), Paul Tonko (NY-20), Joe Morelle (NY-25) and Brian Higgins (NY-26) of New York and Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania.” This motley collection of stragglers and lame left behinds should find a nice place on Tom Emmer’s wall.

Emmer said that “every House Democrat is facing an uphill battle having to defend their toxic socialist agenda that prioritizes trillion-dollar tax hikes on the middle class, opens our borders, closes our schools and defunds the police.”

The Minnesota congressman has put his finger on it, as did the former president last year. Though it may seem amazing to some of us who grew up in free market Republic that won the Cold War, in a way, Joe McCarthy was right. We are fighting against socialism on our own shores and against those in our own government. To steal a line from the watermelon communists, “We have met the enemy and he is us.”

This piece was written by David Kamioner on May 6, 2021. It originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.

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