It is almost all but certain that the Democrats are going to destroy the Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections. The Democrats are highly likely to take a majority in the House where the Republicans currently just barely hold power. Even in the Senate, the Democrats are looking more and more likely to gain a majority there.
We should never underestimate the stupidity of the Democrats. Trump and the Republicans are handing them a gift. Democrats basically just need to shut up and not say anything too stupid or crazy. But some people can’t help themselves. They will find a way to defend wokeness to the extreme. You can take the Democrat out of the room of woke people, but you still can’t take the wokeness out of the Democrat.
Still, the Trump and the Republicans have brought stupidity to a whole new level. Trump is basically saying that he doesn’t care about the elections because Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon. Aside from the fact that Trump’s war against Iran makes it more likely for Iran to get a nuclear weapon, it is extremely bad politics on Trump’s part.
Then, in the next breath, Trump is offering a massive bribe in the form of a $5,000 check to every adult American if the Republicans maintain control of Congress. They will be coming right after your DOGE check and you tariff rebate check. This desperate move by Trump just made him look that much more pathetic.
The establishment Republicans are going to blame all of the people who don’t go to vote who previously voted for Trump. Yet, it is them and Trump who have caused this. They didn’t have to start new wars and bomb 7 countries in one year. They didn’t have to keep growing spending. They didn’t have to do the bidding of the Israeli state. They didn’t have to continually raise and lower tariffs. They didn’t have to work to destroy anyone who dared criticize Trump’s policies. Let’s remember that Trump campaigned harder against Thomas Massie than he has or is doing against any Democrat.
Lame Excuses
There are no excuses any more. Ask any Trump defender why spending and the debt is going higher and higher under Trump. They will come up with some lame excuse that Trump can’t control Congress.
Yet, this is the exact opposite of what Trump would make you believe. And up to this point, Trump has had great control over what members of Congress do. Trump destroyed Massie and MTG. If he put in half as much effort to enact spending cuts, then it would force the hand of the Republicans in Congress.
The problem is that Trump doesn’t want spending cuts. He wants spending increases. That’s why he doesn’t bring the issue up. And when he does bring it up, it is to spend more. He wants a military budget of $1.5 trillion.
Trump has spent most of his time defending his stupid decisions on tariffs and war. Even on immigration, Trump has been mostly terrible. The best you can say is that illegal immigration is way down. But let’s remember that the Trump administration, in March 2025, was focused on arresting and deporting legal immigrants who said anything critical of Israel.
For every issue that Trump has focused on, he has taken the wrong position. He has taken the anti liberty position.
On foreign policy, it is worse than that. His administration murders a hundred and some little kids in Iran and then Trump lies about it.
How many times has Trump threatened to destroy the Iranian civilization? The threat alone qualifies Trump as a war criminal who should be locked up for the rest of his life.
In front of the United Nations, Trump just bragged about the U.S. getting Venezuelan oil. He said, “To the victor belong the spoils.”
Does anyone really want to live in a civilization where this is the rule? If a 300-pound man rapes a 120-pound woman, would Trump just say that “might makes right”. To the victors go the spoils? This is sick and deranged.
The Republicans Deserve to Lose
Just as the Democrats deserved to lose in 2022 and 2024, the Republicans deserve to lose in 2026. This isn’t to say that the Democrats deserve to win.
When we get talk of Democratic socialism and more wokeness, you can blame Trump and the Republicans who supported his nonsense. That is the reason we are getting the Democrats.
It is especially frustrating that Trump has turned into the worst caricature that the anti-Trump left has warned about. Trump is making the left into truth tellers, at least to a certain degree.
To be sure, the Democrats lied about many things, including Russia gate, saying that Trump told people to drink bleach, saying that Trump called white supremacists very fine people, etc. But instead of discrediting them, Trump has done everything in his power to live up to the evilness that the left warned about with Trump.
It is also frustrating because Trump still gets a few things right, yet he just discredits the position more because he supports it. For example, Trump gets some things right on repealing some really bad environmental regulations. He also got it somewhat right in at least appointing RFK Jr. to head the DHHS. But if Trump says something common sense like how we should space out vaccines for young children, then nobody takes him seriously except for his hardcore supporters.
Trump lies about almost everything, so it is almost unfortunate at this point when he actually says something that is true and valid.
Trump Fatigue
The one good thing that will come out of a huge Democratic victory is that Trump will lose a lot of influence. A lot of Republicans will start to turn on Trump. Trump still has a lot of influence within the Republican Party, but that will wane with the coming defeat of the Republicans in the general election.
We can’t get rid of Trump soon enough. He came onto the scene and seemed to offer an alternative to the Bush/ Cheney/ Romney establishment. Now Trump has given us the same policies, and sometimes worse, while still trying to act like he is anti establishment.
We would all be better off at this point if Trump exits the scene as soon as possible. I don’t even care if the Democrats impeach him over something stupid. They won’t impeach him over the Iran war because that would implicate too many past and future presidents of both parties.
J.D. Vance should never be forgiven for how awful he has been in trying to defend the awful things that Trump has done. Still, if Vance became president, maybe we could get some sense of sanity back. At least he probably wouldn’t be continually changing tariffs, threatening other countries, and threatening to end an entire civilization.
When the Democrats win in November, consider that to be a total repudiation of what Trump has done over the last year and a half.