The Nationwide Collapse Of The Republican Party Is Trump’s Fault:
The Iran war and the costs it imposed on the American people were a betrayal of what Trump ran on in 2024, and voters have just confirmed it.
Last night wasn’t just a blue wave or a blue tsunami, it was a nationwide collapse of the Republican Party at the state and federal level — an historic defeat, far worse than 2006, that will have repercussions for the GOP for decades to come.
And it is overwhelmingly President Donald Trump’s fault.
Anyone watching election coverage Tuesday night, or following it on X, heard all kinds of coping from conservative and neocon commentators, blaming poor candidates or botched campaigns or inadequate GOTV efforts. But the overarching reality is that none of these things were determinative. The midterms were a referendum on the Trump administration, and above all on Trump’s decision to go to war with Iran.
That war, which as of this writing we have lost — with no real prospect of winning it anytime soon — had concrete, everyday effects on Americans’ lives. After February 28 of this year, they began paying more not just for gas but also for groceries and nearly everything else, anything that must be transported by a diesel-fueled truck. As National Review’s Michael Brendan Dougherty noted on X last night, “Running on the slogan of America First and then not even bothering to sell a war of choice to the American people that ended up changing almost every household budget in the country.”
This was a war that no Trump voters were asking for in 2024. In fact they were promised the opposite: no new Mideast wars. That, and mass deportations were the two things voters wanted from a second Trump term. He betrayed them on both counts, launching the Iran war and doing too little on mass deportations. And the result is that voters, clearly perceiving the betrayal, have rejected Republicans everywhere.
The war and the everyday costs it has imposed on the American people have driven this collapse, but it’s not the only factor. There were other self-inflicted failures by the Trump White House: the chaotic tariffs, the shameless corruption of Trump officials, the general megalomania of the president and his often-expressed contempt for ordinary people. Even his bizarre and defensive handling of the Epstein files was an indication that he was not focused on the necessary things. --->READ MORE HERE
Iran Nuked Us After All:
Regime-change adventurism on the other side of the world caused a devastating regime change here.
The sandy dunes of Republican midterm prospects just turned to glass, and President Trump and his neocon handlers are desperate to blame the electoral A-bomb on everyone else. But the fundamental cause and effect are clear: In a misguided bid to disarm Iran, Iran nuked us after all.
Warmongers, establishment Republicans, and Trump’s most ardent defenders will blame “candidate quality.” They’ll say this was expected because midterms are traditionally rough for the party in power. And, of course, some of the blame falls on worse-than-useless Senate Republicans, who failed to deliver on even widely supported legislation such as the SAVE Act despite a GOP trifecta.
But while most Republicans expected a beating, this was a bloodbath. Democrats not only flipped the House of Representatives and the Senate, but they did so with candidates such as James “God is nonbinary” Talarico in Texas and Muslim Brotherhood-connected Abdul El-Sayed in the Midwest. Too many red states saw major upsets, including Kansas, South Carolina, and, most disturbingly, Texas — three states that haven’t had a Democrat senator in decades. Not even Republican Gov. Greg Abbott could hold onto his seat in the Lone Star State. Ohio flipped blue, as did North Carolina, Georgia, and Iowa.
Trump told Americans to vote as if he were on the ballot, and unfortunately they did. Exit polls show a whopping 74 percent of voters said Trump’s war in Iran was a major or crucial factor in their votes for members of Congress, and it’s obvious why. By directly driving up fuel prices, the Iran war has also raised prices across the board and made Americans’ everyday lives more difficult. Voters always pay the freight. Raymond James Research showed how Trump’s approval rating shares a nearly perfectly inverse relationship with the price of gasoline.
Republicans can’t convincingly pitch “affordability” when their latest war in the Middle East is putting the squeeze on Americans from every direction. Trump is delivering remarkably on deportations. He’s honoring his commitment to law and order. Violent crime rates under this administration are in freefall, and patriotism is in vogue. This administration deserves credit for all of those things and more. But it really is the economy, stupid.
Just as Anthony Fauci exploited Trump’s germophobia and helped tank his first term with devastating lockdowns, war-hungry Republicans hijacked Trump’s current term with ill-advised foreign entanglements. And that’s how regime-change adventurism on the other side of the world caused a devastating regime change here. --->READ MORE HERE
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