After the Midterm Election
Let me say it straight, first: the outcome of this election is, for the most part, already predictable. The Republicans are likely to lose the House — Pew Research's October polling points the same way — and Trump himself knows it. That is why his whole play is not about the House at all, but about holding the Senate as a shield. The Russian diesel deal, the $8,000,000,000 in farmer relief — those are there to protect rural Senate votes. Without 67 Senate votes, nobody can be removed from office. That shield is his last lifeline. In this situation, look at how the Democrats are behaving right now. They are not sitting back because they are weak, and not without reason either. The way I read it, their posture says: "Do what you can, while you can." Because everything being done right now becomes part of the record. The Epstein files not released. Tariffs collected illegally. A war waged without authorization. A sitting member of Congress's home raided. Today these are ...