We are just over a year away from the midterm elections, and I know that is the last thing you want to think about, still basking in the afterglow of demoralizing Democrats last November. But we have to think about it – in politics, there are no finish lines, there are only checkpoints – and the election is going to happen whether you’re ready for it or not. And Democrats are getting ready for what will be a fight for Donald Trump’s political life.
This election will determine if this Trump administration can push forward with its economic and national security agendas or if it will have to spend all its time in defensive mode, as Democrats will push to impeach him again and investigate every MSNBC conspiracy they can burp up.
The House is in play, and so is the Senate. Even if everything went the way Democrats would like it to, they would never get enough votes in the Senate to convict and remove the President; however, they don’t need to convict him to hamper his ability to get things done in his final two years. Given the clown show of the last week, as administration people fight like children in public and leak to the press to try to protect their “brands,” imagine if Democrats had subpoena power and could drag everyone involved into the public to expose every temper tantrum? For someone to be the adult in the room, there has to be an adult in the room.
And Republicans need an adult in the room if they’re going to fend off the assault on liberty from the left wing.
Democrats have the advantage for next year, for sure. Yes, they are crazy and people don’t like crazy, but they are not the party in power, and the party that isn’t in power always has the advantage in midterms.
Crazy can always be overridden by reality. The party in power will have any and everything that is wrong hung around their necks by the party out of power; that’s just how it works. And it doesn’t matter how bad the party out of power is, because every bad thing they want to do is theoretical, whereas anything wrong – and who knows what will be seen as “wrong” in a year – will be seen as a direct result of the actions of the party in power.
You definitely want to be in power rather than out, but you also have to be ready to fight from the position either one puts you in. Democrats are getting ready.
For example, the One Big Beautiful Bill added work requirements for health insurance welfare, or Medicaid, has been added to the talking points of Democrats everywhere.
Hakeem Jeffries, the “leader” of Democrats in the House who has been cheering the attempted murder of ICE agents, said in a fundraising email, “The GOP Tax Scam rips healthcare away from 17 million Americans to pay for a massive tax break for GOP billionaire donors.”
The idea is stupid, but stupid can take hold if left unchecked. That’s what Democrats are counting on.
“Hospitals could close, nursing homes could shut down, and people could die. It's the largest single transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in American history,” Jeffries continues.
Putting aside the question of how you take something from people who don’t have it to “give” to others, people will be dumb enough to believe this, and Republicans need to message against it before it becomes the accepted reality of voters.
As Jeffries wrote, some things “could” happen – fear is how the left operates, potential fear of things always around the corner, but that never arrive – that voters need to have not only reality pointed out to them, but how that reality differs from what Democrats insisted would happen. They are lying, but the lie will soon be replaced by another lie and forgotten by all except the few for whom it takes hold and becomes their belief. Then another set of lies will do the same thing.
Democrats win by enough people believing one or more of their lies, so Republicans need to work tirelessly to counter every single one of them for the next year.
How well they do that will be the difference between the final two years of the Trump administration delivering success after success and two years of subpoenas and the MSNBC world no one wants to live in.
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
