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One thing doesn’t sit right with me. It seems many are comfortable laying this shellacking almost entirely at Trump’s feet. Despite whatever legitimate criticisms can be made of him, no way this explains it. Gas prices? No way. Iran? Nope. It’s not like we’re in a depression or in Vietnam or Iraq. It’s not like people collectively had a radical ideological transformation in just two years. It’s not like Democrats offered any hope. Come on. Quit scapegoating Trump. That’s lazy and can’t possibly explain this would be sea change. No single issue or combination of issues explains this insanity. A normal off year defeat wouldn’t be hard to wrap one’s mind around but this is tantamount to a colossal injustice; a perversion of reality. People who hate Trump are all too eager to blame him entirely for this but it simply doesn’t ring true to me.

.@POTUS: "Massie is a loser. He shouldn't be taking up the time of Congress... The guy's a stone-cold loser."

It’s going to be a wild week in the US Senate. Buckle up. I have been calling around to various Republican Senators this weekend. A few takeaways… 1. Conference is just furious — pissed is an understatement. 2. They see their own inaction on critical issues like the SAVE Act and insider trading bills as a major de-motivator for the midterms. They blame Thune and leadership for playing safe. 3. The rushed Leadership vote Tuesday is seen as a blatant insult. Senators want to know how their Leaders will respond to lame duck session and being in a steep minority. 4. Over a dozen Senators are demanding round the clock work on Trump nominations and judicial appointments. Some believe parts of the SAVE Act can still be passed through reconciliation. 5. Recess appointments are also being demanded. Thune is holding them up. 6. Senators are openly questioning their adherence to “tradition” — blue slip, filibuster etc. — as a new crop of Democrats couldn’t care less and will destroy tradition for power in a heartbeat. 7. There’s a sense that something big is going to happen. A real shakeup. Stay tuned… One Senator tells me: “The guys blocking an America First conference are all gone now. It’s never going back to the old ways. Time to try new things…” Buckle up.

Loyalty is near extinction.

🚨 TRUMP DROPPED THIS AND I’M NOT OKAY. The best is yet to come. Trump just reminded everyone why. Watch it.

Reason # 5

The Midterm is Not the Endterm It is too soon to calibrate the direction of the post midterm Democratic and Republican Parties. But if the first 72 hours are any indication—and despite the soon to be Speaker’s denials—the Left is already bragging about subpoenas, and it is intoxicated by the notion of investigations and impeachments. Heady Democrats have entirely forgotten the politically suicidal fashion of the 2021-4 five civil and criminal courtroom circuses, the Mar-a-Lago raid, and the blue state deballoting efforts. All that and more fueled the Trump recovery. Wild talk of multi-trillion-dollar new agendas grows, like socializing the health care system, a renewed Green New Deal, student loan forgiveness, and illegal alien amnesties, along with new punitive income and estate regulations and taxes. This socialist dream is reminiscent of the 2021 giddy splurging that gave the country a 9.1% inflation rate by midterm year 2022. Along with the Afghanistan disaster (the Left’s correction for a Middle East ‘forever war”) the inflation would ensure Biden a 40% popularity. The idea that the Left, which cannot do much real lawmaking without a veto-proof Congress, will try to reach deals with the White House, adopt a 1995 Clinton-like realist agenda, simply claim credit for the growing Trump economy, or moderate its rhetoric is highly unlikely. Instead, we hear crazy talk of confiscations, new billionaire and millionaire punitive taxes, imprisonments, changing the Constitution—all in full suicidal 1972 McGovern style. Republicans are blame-gaming each other, which can be constructive if over issues and reforms rather than social media ad hominem. But they need to message far better, about both the administration’s successes and the dangers of a socialist future. There will be likely be no planned presidential succession, or gentlemanly agreement on a front runner. That’s likely good news. More likely as of now a triangular race between front-runners De Santis, Rubio, and Vance emerges—all of whom are far preferable to any ticket with a Newsom, Harris, AOC, Mamdani, or el-Sayed. If the Republicans can stay reasonably united, they can ensure permanent presidential vetoes of crazy leftwing legislation, fight back on the Democratic committee inquisitions, and see the economy in the final two years become an asset in recovering their popularity. Absent in all conversations is that there is increasing evidence that the economy is actually expanding and has the potential to boom in 2027, or at least the data indicate such potential. The jobs report came out yesterday with a stunning 165,000 jobs created in October (accompanied by the usual journalists’ adverb “unexpectantly”), dropping unemployment to 4.1%. Revised 3rd GDP stats now show a robust 3.4% growth—likely ensuring at least 3%+ growth for the year. Third Quarter consumer spending soared 3.8%. Private domestic investment surged with 19.4% growth. Just reported last week: median family income in 2025 hit a new record ($87,460)—the highest in 60 years adjusted for inflation. And poverty dipped to its lowest rate (ever 10.2%). In October manufacturing activity grew faster than at any time in the past five years. Yes, prices are too high, and final 2026 inflation, given gas hikes, is scheduled to increase by one point (3.7%) from last year’s (2.7%). But it is still lower than the pan-European average (ca. 4+%)—and much lower than the Biden average over four years of 5.1%. Gas prices are already falling. On November 6 prices fell to a $4.06 average—as global oil transit is mostly back to prewar levels and refineries scramble to handle the increased deliveries. U.S. companies are dominating all the top 10 rankings in market capitalization/usage in key area such as software, AI, digital media, space, satellite launches, and bio/genetic engineering. Note that today gas prices are not that much higher than 4 years ago at the 2022 midterm time ($4.06 vs. ca. $3.80), and haven’t once spiked to $5 a gallon as they did in 2022, just four months before the Biden midterms. Yet oddly, the red wave sputtered in 2022 when the U.S. was in far worse economic shape than this week when the blue wave became a tsunami. Messaging, media, and communication count, so note: Four years ago GDP growth was lower than today—even though the pandemic was about over and there was a dramatic return to work and spending. The inflation rate was almost three times higher in 2022 than now. Median family income was $14,000 lower than now. The poverty rate was higher in 2022. The Dow was 20,000 points lower. Foreign investment will likely end the year 30-40% higher than in 2022. Real wage growth (nominal wages minus inflation) while not great in 2026 is likely to end the year far better than in 2022 (when real wage growth fell 2-3%). So why would “affordability” have been decisive in the 2026 midterms when it was not in 2022? The 21% aggregate inflation rate Trump inherited force-multiplied the average 3.15% Trump inflation rate of 2025-6— yet in a way the aggregate first-term Trump inflation rate (7.7% just a third of the Biden total) did not exaggerate all that much the 9.1% inflation rate in 2022. Messaging, however, matters. The administration did not explain adequately that a 21% rise in prices cannot be lowered without radical deflation or recession, but only ameliorated by medium family income growth and lowering the inflation rate from the Biden 2021-5 averages, both of which occurred in 2025-6, but were forgotten. Media coverage of the Biden 2022 weak economy were muted, while Trump’s 2-year inflation rate was exaggerated during 2026. The Iran war became the culprit as a war of choice that made the inherited Biden 21% high prices and the inability to lower were them solely Trump’s fault. Again, there was inadequate explanation of either the economic reality or why the gamble to denuclearize Iran was defensible–with the caveat that stopping the bombing at day 38 and talking with theocrats for seven months was an unfortunate mistake. The domestic and foreign policy activism of the lame-duck Clinton (1998-2000} and Obama (2014-2016) presidencies increased after their loss of Congress. Indeed, their popularity climbed from a once nadir of below forty to sixty percent approval or above. There is no reason why the Trump administration cannot have a successful last two years. The economy is growing. The crime rate is at historic lows. The border is closed shut. The radical pro-Western political transformation of South and Central America has remade the entire Western Hemisphere. European NATO is rearming. Oil and gas production is at highest levels of any nation in history. The bloated federal work force has been trimmed by over 270,000 jobs. There is no longer a 40,000-50,000 shortfall in military recruitment. The forced reforms in higher education were long overdue. The verdict on Iran is still out. If it is denuclearized, the crippling sanctions continued, the Strait kept open, the provincial opposition armed—and our military gone home— the regime will face an increasingly restive population 2026 was an unequivocal defeat, but 2028 need not be. If the administration and Congress stay disciplined and united, and can message better, while the Left goes utterly berserk, drunk on their midterm successes, socialism/Islamism, and Trump Derangement Syndrome 2.0, the tide will soon radically turn— as the economy already has.

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WHEN REPUBLICANS HAVE CONTROLLED CONGRESS THE RINOS & SELF CONSUMED HAVE FAILED TO WORK TOGETHER THEY SQUANDERED THE OPPORTUNITY FOR HISTORIC PROSPERITY & SUCCESS UNDER THE GREATEST PRESIDENT OF OUR TIME DONALD J. TRUMP @POTUS THE ELECTION RESULTS SIGNALS CONSERVATIVES DISGUSTED WITH SPINELESS REPUBLICANS WHO HAVE FAILED THEIR DUTY TO PROTECT AMERICA’S FUTURE THANK GOD, PRESIDENT TRUMP STILL STANDS IN THE BREACH TO CONTINUE TO BUILD ON THE MOST PROSPEROUS & FREE COUNTRY IN THE WORLD! THE LEFT WILL CONTINUE TO ATTACK DESTROY & HATE BUT THE FAITHFUL WHO BELIEVE IN GOD, FAMILY, WORK AND FREEDOM, WILL STAND FIRMLY & COURAGEOUSLY WITH HIM.

Mr. Vice-President, Please allow me to present a different perspective. The problem was not the Iran War. It was the cease fire. If you start a war, you need to win it and finish it – otherwise don’t start it. This war should have been over six months ago, with the Strait of Hormuz wide open and oil flowing. The second and third tiers of Iranian leadership should have been destroyed, and we should have supported the pro-western forces who could have taken leadership. We stood on the brink of a new, more peaceful Middle East - and then we blinked. We had a chance not only to deny Iran nuclear weapons, but to get rid of the world’s biggest supporter of terrorism. Instead, we had a cease fire, which was followed by months of will we or won’t we finish the job. Every day was a different message. There still is. Is the war over? Is it about to begin? No one knows. There is confusion and inconsistency. In June 2025, America was not involved. This was an Israel vs Iran issue. No one forced the United States to attack Iran then, or in February of 2026. It was a decision made by President Trump. In my opinion, it was the right decision. Once the decision was made, we should not have stopped until the regime fell. But instead, you negotiated a cease fire that didn’t last, didn’t work and left us in no man’s land, with higher prices and our troops still deployed. Our troops could have been home, the Navy returned to its bases, a peaceful regime in place , new alliances forged, and gas prices below $3.00 a gallon. No, Mr. Vice President. It’s not the war. It’s the so-called cease fire.

The scale of the Republican defeat is so great that it makes the race for the GOP presidential nomination wide open. If the administration had won a big victory, Vice President J D Vance would have had an enormous argument to be the inevitable nominee. Now, with this go-slow strategy blowing up in Iran and his defense of Vivek Ramaswamy's horrible, inhumane ad featuring his opponent's mother attacking her own daughter, a good bit of the luster has come off the bloom. The number of people who want to draft Secretary of State Marco Rubio is staggering. In addition, Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, Ron DeSantis, Pete Hegseth, Glenn Youngkin, and a surprising number of people may decide this is their chance to take advantage of the chaos of the shocking defeat and seek to be the champion who can rescue the party and the country.

No. You didn’t. You are absolutely 100% wrong. You did nothing of the sort. @NRSC Senate Republicans under YOUR “leadership” did nothing. Nothing. You had the chance to begin the process of saving our election system from the radical left. By passing the SAVE America Act. But K Street either didn’t care or opposed it. So why bother, right? Because the GOP Senate only does what can be monetized via those endless lobbyist dinners / fundraisers. If it can’t raise you money? Probably not worth doing. And you BERATED @BasedMikeLee for trying to get you to work full weeks, to try to pass the SAVE America Act. Or to work a weekend sometime. Or not to recess for weeks in March and then again recess for a month in August. You and your fellow GOP Senators told him that nobody cared about the SAVE America Act. That he needed to sit down and shut up. And the American people watched you, day after lazy, do-nothing day. And how you literally could not come up with a single idea to manage the Senate rules to get the bill passed. You just could not figure it out. Because you really didn’t and don’t care. And because you just are clueless. What’s all the fuss, you say. It’s not a big deal to you that our election system has been taken over and manipulated by the left. That aliens by the hundreds of thousands are on our voter rolls, that there are illegal votes by the thousands in the election results…and that it matters. It matters to the USA. But not to you @LeaderJohnThune So now, you don’t have to worry about it. You don’t have to be in charge of producing meaningful results for the American people. They just sent you to your room without any supper. I’m sure you must be relieved. You and your fellow GOP colleagues who just flat couldn’t be bothered to figure out how to save our elections. Well done, you. What a waste of space you’ve been as a leader. That term should never be applied to you or to your inner circle. Utterly disgusted by the lot of you. You did this. Tuesday was the Thune election. You own it. Hope you’re happy. @EIwatchdogs @seanmdav @EricLDaugh @elonmusk @realDonaldTrump @Bannons_WarRoom @greg_price11 @RealAmVoice

I just spoke to @VDHanson about what the midterm results mean for Trump, the Republican Party, MAGA, and 2028. Here’s what he told me: The Republican losses were predictable. Since 1900 the White House party has lost House seats in ~90% of midterms (Senate in ~75%). The size of this wave (dozens in House, 7-9 Senate) is the real outlier. Trump has roughly 70 days to lock in judges, cabinet picks, and nominees before the new Congress arrives. With a ~45-seat Republican Senate, Trump will have to keep all Republicans in line or face a “veto-proof” Democratic Congress. Trump can and will act unilaterally on foreign policy and executive orders. Historical precedent is clear. “The imperial presidency operates as they wish,” Hanson says. The “affordability” story was heavily media-driven. Inflation is roughly one-third of 2022’s 9.1%. Family income is up ~$14k, GDP is stronger, stocks are +20k, poverty is down. The real issue is the 21% cumulative price jump he inherited—and the administration never clearly explained how slower inflation + higher incomes fixes it. Trump never explained in full why the Iran campaign was necessary. The first 38 days were a historic success; stopping short and endless talk of negotiations let Iran claim they stopped him. The messaging, not the campaign itself, was the biggest problem. Unlike this Congress, the new Democratic majority will have iron party discipline. That contrast will matter. 2028 starts now. The Vance-Rubio pairing will face immediate pressure—many will want Rubio at the top of the ticket, but Vance can’t run as VP again. Democrats will jump in fast. Their nominee will almost certainly come from the left of the party. The Republican path to recovery, Hanson argues, runs through results, not rhetoric. A strong economy in 2026-27, a finished Iran campaign, and visible progress on affordability give the next nominee a real chance. Without those, the structural advantages of the new Democratic Congress become decisive.

This will take a minute, but read this, let it sink in, and share it. What happened tonight with the absolute lashing the GOP took in the midterms? ✅The party in power (almost) always loses. ✅People don't show up in midterms like they do for Presidential tickets. ✅The Republican congress (and White House) didn't have / articulate the wins that they should have had (like the SAVE America Act, Epstein, the nonsense with Iran and what it did to the economy, etc). ✅For IL, like it or not, most people weren't excited about the top of the ticket and when people get it in their mind that there is "no point because (X) won't win," down ballot is subsequently hurt. Now, what do we do from here? Whine? Sure, if you want, but don't we do enough of that? You need to get involved; "they" do. Go to your next county / township meeting (and keep going) and see where you can step up and fix what we all complain about being broken. Afterall, if not you, then who? From there, network with like-minded people, your community and earn this great nation we were given. From before the realization of what this nation was, there was a subconscious idea that was Americanism. It was not easy to obtain, nor is it easy to maintain, and that's why we're the world's greatest short of Christ returning. To all of our great candidates, representatves, volunteers, and coming participants, see you on the battlefield. 🎇🇺🇸🎆 You retain the republic you're willing to sacrifice for. ⏰Get up (stop just sharing posts). 🗳️Get involved (volunteer, knock doors, donate, become a precinct committeeman, election judge, run for boards, higher office, etc.). ⚔️Fight for America! God bless. #USA #Midterms #GetInvolved