Agree...POTUS wants the mid-terms to be about peace and prosperity...not about a political “civil war”.
If things are good and relatively calm, outside of the common political “bickering”, then he has a chanc3 to turn the standard tide of midterm elections. If he throws a wrench into the common narrative of midterm elections, he becomes exceedingly powerful politically - and he takes effective control of the majority Republican Party...control which he has not had these first two years. He becomes very powerful politically if he changes the pattern of midterm outcomes.
And the Democrats big play has been disruption of the government, trying to make it fail and be unworkable...and use that to not energize their base but win back some heartland voters. This is what the insanity of their propaganda arm, the MSM, has been all about, creating a sense of chaos and need for change.
Trump is playing for peace and prosperity, the opposite of chaos, this is probably why he isnt pushing forward on prosecutions (which can be easily portrayed as persecutions) and the upheaval of clearing out the bureaucracy. He will be in a much more powerful position if Republicans win the midterms - especially inside the Party.
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Thanks for the great analysis.
I feel that this dynamic may partly continue even after victorious midterms; HOWEVER, at some point, possibly after Senate majority is (almost certainly)increased and SCOTUS stacked, POTUS will unleash the real counterattack on the lawlessness.
They may also want to weather a little recession first, which is overdue and perhaps inevitable as the FED reduces its Balance Sheet. (Modestly rising interest rates can be good for Main Street, but not so much for Wall Street.)