As a three-time Trump voter with no regrets, I don’t like this message any more than most of you. So don’t shoot me, I’m just the messenger.
The message is the Republicans in next fall’s midterm elections will lose the House, bigly, and probably the Senate.
If politics is indeed “war by other means,” expect the political war next fall to be bloody. Think Battle of the Little Bighorn. Think Stalingrad. Think Pickett’s Charge. Think the Battle of Midway. Think Waterloo. It will be one-sided.
Oh, I know the President has done some terrific things – at great personal risk to himself, by the way – even if they were sometimes done unartfully.
Stopping illegal immigration is near the top of the list. His crude methods were probably by design but might have been by fortuitous accident. Either way, he sent a message that transcended language barriers: The United States of America doesn’t welcome illegal immigrants anymore, and illegals who come anyway may find themselves on a one-way flight to West Africa. Due process? Mayyyybe . . . .
As a result, illegal immigration is at the lowest point in decades. The southern border in particular is more like, well, a nation’s border. All this has produced some human pain. Fixing big problems that politicians tolerated and sometimes encouraged often has that effect.
In the Middle East, the President let the Israelis beat and batter the barbarians of Hamas and then brokered a quasi-peace between the two. Even better, he prevented a nuclear Iran/Israel war by handing the Persians their biggest defeat since the Battle of Marathon two and a half millennia ago.
On tariffs, however, the President got out of his depth. His tariffs were defensible as an economic matter, maybe, but not as a legal matter. He will lose when the Supreme Court issues its decision next Spring – perhaps in a 9-0 decision – and the Court signaled as much in oral arguments a couple of weeks ago. At best, the decision will be 7-2 against the President.
The unravelling of those tariffs, which will have been in effect illegally for as much as a year, will be messy and embarrassing for the administration.
Intangibles are the most notable things on the score card for this administration. On the plus side, the President has made “woke” a four-letter word. That’s more than a stylistic change. Wokeness and all that it entails – abolition of merit, obsession with skin color and sexual preferences, the euphemizing of language, ubiquitous victimization – was highly destructive to America and the world.
On the minus side, the President has shown a tendency to say or tweet what he thinks in a way that often and needlessly offends. The most recent example was when a reporter persisted in asking yet another follow-up question during a press conference. Most reporters are loathsome creatures, but they paid to ask – nay, shout – questions in that manner.
The President could have ignored the reporter, or rebuked her with something like “let’s move on.”
Instead, he barked “Quiet, piggy!”
That may not bother you but it does bother millions of Americans, particularly women. Such people vote.
Right now, approval surveys suggest that many of them are sufficiently turned off by these sorts of crude insults that their vote will be against the GOP next fall. The outcome of the special elections around the country a few weeks ago supports that conclusion.
Forget about peace in the Middle East, the solving of the immigration debacle, and the mixed outcome on tariffs. Because the people will forget about those things.
What many of them will remember is that they dislike the President on a personal level. People vote against people they dislike. Right now, a large and growing number of people dislike the President.
That’s a fundamental flaw in representative democracy, but it’s an unavoidable aspect of human nature. We’ll see the results next fall.
Now, before you bark “Quiet, piggy!” at me, remember: I’m just the messenger and just doing my job. (And in case you think it’s relevant, I’m 6’ tall and weigh 160 pounds.)
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I am praying that this does not happen. I am a female voter NOT offended by President Trump’s language in the slightest and suggest that women who are should grow the Fuck up
Agree, we as society can not go back to unvetted immigrants 15-25 million, not interested in lawful entry, not interested in driving rules, or safety of us women. I can see democrat congresswomen opening up our private spaces to men…again.
I too am a messenger…and I doubt very much there will be a 2026 midterm election.
It’s ironic you mention the Battle of Midway. The Convergence Matrix holds that history should be looked upon as an equation fusing history and wagering Blaise Pascal’s probabilities mathematics with Judaic scripture e.g. the miracle election of Trump in 2016 has only one analog in history; the Battle of Midway that witnessed all the right assets and all the right people in all the right places at exactly the right time for exactly the same reason…to purchase Americans time to rise and defeat fascism.
Do you really believe it was mere coincidence Donald Trump was 70 years, 7 months and 7 days old the day he became president of the United States in 2017…the Jewish year of the three swords 5777?.
As to why I doubt there will be a midterm election, take the time to read the essay Learn to read the Language of God @ https://x.com/AdlerPfingsten/article/1992412979246342254
Those who fall so easily for the “piggy” rudeness lie would be unmoved by the pushback revealing that the journalist to whom Trump was speaking was Margaret Collins, known as Peggy. He said “Peggy.”
But those offended wouldn’t vote for him anyway, and this fake outrage will have faded by then.
I disagree with you that Trump’s off-putting personality traits will drive voting patterns and prove more important than his economic, cultural and global successes. We all knew of his shortcomings, his vulgarities, his verbal meanderings and his impulsiveness last time and the time before.
As a known factor, and temporary, they will not matter as much as the broader consequences of his leadership.
I think the previous commenter is probably right: A year is a long time in the context of present events, and an awful lot can and will happen before then, including nuclear war.
Trump has done what CEOs do who are brought in to save failing companies: He has made all the cuts (DOGE), fired all the incompetents, and exposed the embedded stay-behind network dating from the Clintons whose agenda is to sell out the country to foreign interests for fun and profit. They are throwing everything they have at Trump to stop him, and their present warnings of a bloodbath are wishful predictive programming.
Repatriating capital and manufacturing (tariffs) takes time and causes near-term pain, but it will improve our standard of living in the longer term, and by next year, some of that may already begin to pay off. Some voters will see that.
But the most significant thing Trump has done is to expose the Dominion Voting Machine fraud that includes hardwired internal code to falsify election results and communicate with foreign servers. You think Republicans will lose based on Trump’s margin of victory despite vote fraud. You might find the actual margins for Republicans are much larger when the shadow-actors who control the Democrats no longer control the vote counting. As Josef Stalin observed, “it doesn’t matter who votes, but who counts the votes”.
It’s possible that there’s still a lot of voting fraud out there, but it’s worth noting that in the special elections this fall, the Dems did significantly BETTER than the pollsters predicted.
Trump has put this country and its people in a position to succeed over many decades but will face the Marxist who are hell bent on destroying this country and Turing it into Russian style dictatorship.
Trump prevented an Iran/nuclear war you say. I’d stop at nuclear war. Because I can’t imagine the Iranian government stopping at decimating Israel. The West was five minutes away from finding out and it beggars belief that it did nothing. That it didn’t appreciate or care the danger of letting Iran loose on the world.
right, I think – except that Congress can fix the tariff mess anytime it wants to.
Mr. Beacon doesn’t get telling us what winning issues they have. Socialism is not one of them. If the voting right act is overturned, as it should be,. The dems are down 19 seats login with. Trump is building the economy for the long haul and that’s why 2026 will great year with a roaring economy.. Gems will be stepping on rakes all year.