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Of course, Warnock then won re-election in 2022. Was that too just an anomaly, a one-time event explained away by the GOP's mistake in running Herschel Walker, a man who made his name on the football field, as its candidate? It's not as if Georgia Republicans would ever repeat that unforced error, right? They would never again try to nominate someone else whose only qualification was football fame, someone like Derek Dooley?

No, they would never.

But anomalies are funny things. Considered in isolation, they might not mean much. But when you get a string of them, one anomaly after another, they cease to be anomalies at all. They become a trend.

We also have other anomalies to consider. For example, today we have a former Republican lieutenant governor who has switched parties and is now running for governor as a Democrat. That's pretty rare, right? When was the last time a party-switcher actually ran for governor and won?

Well, Sonny Perdue did it in 2002. That was an anomaly, until Nathan Deal did it again in 2010. The anomalies became a trend.

We also have MAGA queen Marjorie Taylor Greene, representing Georgia's 14th Congressional District, who is suddenly and loudly condemning her own party's leadership. She is slamming it for its failure to reopen the government and for its failure to address a looming crisis in health insurance affordability. In a startling appearance this week on ABC Television's The View, where Greene was greeted warmly by the liberal hosts, she called the GOP's performance“embarrassing.”

My mother, who lives out of state, is a big fan of The View.

“What the heck happened to that woman?” Mom asked me this week.“Did she get struck by lightning or something?”

“No, Mom. I think it was space lasers. Or maybe chemtrails.”

The easy, short-term conclusion from all this is that Democrats have momentum going into the 2026 midterms, both here in Georgia and nationwide. While I think that's true, something deeper and more profound is also going on.