If the Dims take over the House and Senate then we will be in big trouble. The DSA is taking over the democrat party.
Trump has spent years trying to ensure honest elections. Trying to let the American people have a real say in future governments. But little progress has been made. Trump’s own party is in the way, blocking everything.
If the DSA gets power, I think they will be able to outlaw the GOP, round up and imprison troublesome political opponents, and lock in permanent tyranny by the Democrat Party. No one and nothing will stand in their way.
The GOP platform is ‘fear the dims’ and elect us so we can take vacations.
That seems to be all of it.
Uh huh. Right….I hear this bromide every 2 years.
I am so grateful for Freerepublic, I suffer from optimism and it invades every thought. I wake up thinking the best days are ahead for me and the country.
Thanks for helping me.
I’ve said before that there is no longer any political solution to our nation’s ailment. I stand even more firmly on that position.
It will be resolved by an unforeseen spiritual revival, or a hot civil war, resulting in tens of millions of deaths.
The out-of-power party tends to win the mid-terms. It is not unusual that Trump and the Republicans lost in 2016 and that we look to lose in 2026.
Nevertheless, we have reasons to be hopeful.
First, even the pundits give us the edge in Senate races. We look to pick-up Michigan and maybe also New Hampshire. The Democrats look to have the inside track in North Carolina, but that race is tightening.
A lot of races are “within the margin of error;” but if we keep our net loses to a minimum, we’ll keep the Senate.
On the other hand, it’s entirely possible we, net, break-even or even, net, make a gain. And this is entirely in our hand. If we GOTV, “get out the vote,” we’ll do fine. We don’t even need enthusiasm. All we need is a sense of duty.
As Johnny Rico put it in Starship Trooper, “A citizen accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic.”
Second, we’re down - but not by a whole lot - in the generic congressional ballot. If he can move this deficit from minus 5 to minus 3, we might make up our loses in seats elsewhere in the country, with our gains in states where we re-drew the lines.
Realclearpolitics has a deep dive in polling prior to midterm elections and the outcomes in recent midterm elections.
In 2010 (the year of the Tea Party), we picked up 63 seats, and in 2018 (the first Trump backlash) they pick up 41 seats. In those years the margins in the generic congressional ballot were 9.5 and 7.3 points in favor of the winning side.
In two other recent midterm, we pickup about ten seats each, and had margins favoring us of about 3 points.
If we lose the House but keep the Senate, they’ll gain subpoena power and they’ll probably impeach Trump one or more times. They’ll also have Trump over a barrel when it comes to budget matters. (Those really awful deficits of Trump’s first term were from the second years of that term, when the Democrats controlled the House.) But, we’ll still be able to get our nominees through the Senate.
If we lose both the House and the Senate, Trump will not only be a lame duck, but the Democrats will hold up all nominees for the possibility of winning the Presidential race in 2028 (the way Mitch McConnell did with Obama’s nominees).
Democrats platform is Socalism, inflation and hate Trump.
Half the nation will be in favor of martial law if left wins the midterms.
The streets will become a battleground.
Elon can’t move Civilization off planet fast enough. In the future perhaps Earth will become the Solar Systems insane asylum.