[rollo tomasi]

What has Congress done since January 3, 2025 that the majority of people can actually feel in a positive manner to take in the voting booth in Nov. of 2026? Big beautiful bill is just more ugly debt with promises of a payoff that doesn't make logical economical sense.

Modern reason why the Executive Party in control with the bodies in Congress of the same Party in tow loses seats is direct debt influencing/straining the economy and a warped Utopian interpretation of Ricardo comparative advantage/opportunity costs cost with countries that want to annihilate the US hegemony. Reagan lost the Senate in ‘86 due to his amnesty buffoonery of cheap domestic labor replacement strategy while Clinton lost the HOR due to outsourcing/ hence both globalists buffoons. GHB just sucked in general.

[Jim Noble]

The people (as a collective) voted for revolution in 2016, Trumpo foolishly tried to ally with the GOP after what must have seemed to him like a hostile takeover in business - but politics doesn’t work that way.

So he tried working hard to elect Republicans, seemingly unaware that a lot of his core voters aren’t Republicans and don’t want to vote for what the GOP has on offer. Most Republicans in Congress would vote to impeach and remove Trump today if you allowed them a secret ballot.

This meant the huge losses of 2018, which are about to be repeated in 2026.

His only chance - which is too big of a chance for a 79 year old man to take - is to burn it down. Cross the Rubicon, see if the troops will follow Hegseth or the generals, use his Article II section 3 power to adjourn Congress, outlaw both parties, and do what must be done.

[Drew68]

What has Congress done since January 3, 2025 that the majority of people can actually feel in a positive manner to take in the voting booth in Nov. of 2026? Big beautiful bill is just more ugly debt with promises of a payoff that doesn't make logical economical sense.

Rest assured, every FReeper is going to crawl over broken glass in 2026 to vote a straight (R) ticket.

But I fear this will not be enough. He needs to find a way to re-energize that base of young white (and white adjacent) men who came out in droves to return him to the White House last year.

There was so much excitement among this demographic last February. You could feel it. Liberals were crying every day as DOGE was taking a chainsaw to the government and liberal NGOs. They felt like they finally had their Franco or Pinochet who would weild a sword and punish the enemies of American Greatness (and make no mistake, it is a Franco or a Pinochet that these young voters desperately want, and when Trump said he was going to be a dictator on Day One, he was singing their song).

And now all of that energy has evaporated. No DOGE. Libs stopped crying and started winning special elections.

And most demotivating was after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, when President Trump had carte blanche to rain hellfire upon every liberal organization out there, in the eyes of these young men, he did nothing.

And now the overall consensus over on X where many of these young men hang out is that you can murder conservative activists with no consequence, no downside at all.

Getting these young men to the polls next November is going to be a tall order.