If the Republicans lose either house they will be reduced to a president presiding in office who is reduced in power to what he can wield with his "pen and his phone." As resourceful, determined and charismatic as President Trump is, he will likely be fatally handicapped in his crusade to actually save the Republic. That means more than shifting power temporarily away from the deep state to the Republican party, or winning some legislative battles over tax policy, this crusade is to actually save the constitutional republic from a fatal debt spiral and a metastasizing moral cancer.
Fortunately, Trump is singularly equipped to win this election. Very soon he will address the nation in one of the few moments when the president enjoys the focused and extended attention of the whole of the nation in a manner that leaves him less vulnerable to fake news distortions.
In the State of the Union speech he should deny his urge to tout his foreign policy achievements, which are many and great, to emphasize domestic concerns that traditionally decide elections. Trump should seize the moment and outline a devastating indictment of the Democrats and the systemic fraud with which they have cheated Americans of their healthcare, their pensions, and their tax dollars.
The attack must amount to a devastating bill of particulars that makes clear that this systemic fraud done by Democrats hurts every American in ways that mothers will identify with because it hurts their families. When she understands that she can not afford healthcare for sick children, for example, because the system has been pillaged she will vote Republican in unquenchable indignation.
This is the demographic that will carry the election and reverse the historic trend against incumbent presidents in their first by-election.
