Republican Matt Van Epps has won a special election in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District — a race the media immediately framed as “ shockingly close, ” a supposed omen of GOP collapse heading into next year’s midterms.

That is how the Independent described it. Nearly every major outlet followed the same script: Van Epps “squeaked through,” “barely won,” or “scraped by” against flaky Democrat Aftyn Behn — a candidate so culturally radical she publicly insists that men can give birth and openly sneered at the people and culture of the district she sought to represent.

The Tennessee race did not expose a Republican crisis so much as it exposed the cultural realignment reshaping the country.

The narrative writes itself: If a progressive activist who hates her own potential consti

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