‘Tis once what a time when elections did not matter. When Americans could vote gleefully for either party and at least a slim majority of politicians would exercise at least the most minimalist of demands from the electorate. This brief story is not about Norse gods, American legends, or the eternal conflicts within man himself. What I shall reflect on is the immediate consequences of this resounding repudiation of President Trump, the Republican Party, and the Constitution itself.
I. “I will not seal your knowledge with showing them. I will make much of your voices and so trouble you no farther.“
Ah the soothing tones of Shakespeare to remind my audience that although I take these absences not by choice, but by necessity and as history moves forward, the consequences of said history must be reflected upon. So as Coriolanus spoke, Trump shall exploit and make much of your voices then trouble you no farther. Or is this something far more insidious designed to ensure the citizens bother the elites no further.
Way back in December of 2025, these pages predicted the following:
1. Despite “government” reports and the enactment of the One Big Beautiful Bill consumer sentiment for the lower 70% of the population remains suppressed. This anger with embedded inflation, flat wages, and the collections efforts by the IRS against delinquent student loan deadbeats creates a wave election for the mid-term. Using the “economy sucks” theme, the DNC learns a lesson and creates a revival of the faux “Dixiecrat” concept in Alabama, Kansas, and Texas. Republicans lose over 60 seats in the House and 6 seats in the Senate. The shockers are losses by the GOP Senate races in Alabama, Kansas, and Ohio.
The only reason this author included Alabama was the irrational thought that the Democrats would nominate a sane Dixiecrat instead of a traditional leftist nutter thus handing the seat to the Republicans. However Texas, Iowa, and of all states Mississippi (not final) look to be solid flips providing the Democrats with a projected 56 seats in the US Senate, slightly above the 54 these pages projected.
As the Democrat machine ran out of money this time, the inability to push certain candidates over the finish line does not shock these pages. It would appear my 60 projection fill fall short but the Democrats will gain anywhere from 50 to 51 seats a development which will probably keep the Republicans out of the majority for another two decades if not longer. Overall, these pages deserve at least a B+ on this prediction because it was made before anyone thought Trump would engage in a long duration war with Iran which helped to destroy the lower and middle class with persistently higher embedded inflatoin.
II. Rather than fool it so, Let the high office and the honor go
The problem for President Donald Trump is not just the numbers after the election which will be settled within the next few weeks.
It’s the money stupid.
Now there is zero reason for corporate America, corporate Europe, corporate China, or even the hosers from north of the border to donate, respect, surrender, negotiate, or acquiesce to a more bitter and poorly tanned version of Biden Lite.
In fact if anything, the lame duck two year session will result in nothing but a long pause, a sitzkrieg so to speak, where all parties act tough with bluster but no real offensive action occurs as they elect to wait Trump out and attempt to re-establish a better version of the old world order.
The incompetence of Trump’s team to allow their own paranoid beliefs in conspiracies and cloak rooms to impair their vision of what the American people are feeling created this nightmare. Now the penalty will not only be born by the Trump family which will be as popular as jock itch or various STDs of the street, but the Republican Party which has caught the infection of surrendering like a French politician whenever a challenge is presented.
It truly is a dark time until the entire leadership is swept aside and the protestations of the “family” are shunted aside into the dustbin of history.
III. By mingling them with us, the honored number, Who lack not virtue, no, nor power, but that Which they have given to beggars.
And now the beggars have the gavels.
With their new found power the so-called Conservative, Inc. conspiracy theory nutters have begun their protestations that we need to pray harder, work harder, and vote harder once again. That the events of last Tuesday were not the cause of their promoting false gods and hypocritical conservatives, but that they failed in their propagandist efforts to “educate” the masses enough.
The Democrats might appear to be vengeful in this era, yet a quick glance in American history provides an alternative viewpoint.
President Hoover misinterpreted the inaction of the Democrat leadership which was in the minority after the 1930 election by only one vote each in the House and Senate as the American people failing to give his administration a chance to engage in policies which would reverse the impacts of the Great Depression. In fact it was his arrogant approach to the Republican majorities in the House and Senate before the midterm elections which worsened the crisis by failing to address the lack of available credit to the majority of Americans.
By adding insult to injury with the July 1930 signing of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, the economy would stagnate for years to come, especially after the midterm elections in November of that year. But how does relate to the modern era one might ask?
The Democrat party is evil, not stupid. Let’s establish that ground rule as a basis of understanding for all the youths who have not been around for election cycles the past 50 years.
If there is any modern day parallel in markets, economics, and politics it would be the 1973-1974 era where the United States was engaged in the following domestically and internationally:
- Arab Oil Embargo (shortage due to war in the Middle East)
- Cold War (USSR then, China now)
- Persistent cyclical inflationary outbursts
- Reduced recognition of US hegemony globally
- Domestic discontent due to technological change impacting economic security
- Cultural shift from the nuclear family to individualism and personal isolationism
- Addiction to new substances and technology
- Transition from a boomer era based economic model to regional trans-nationalism
- Diversification of the US population due to the need for government population supplantment for future economic redistribution of resources
- Reduction of economic dependence on hard assets and production measurements with fiat or variable means
Stop me if any of this seems familiar.
The Democrats, if they are not truly led by fools, will probably proceed with an agenda similar to 1973-74 where they picked off the President’s peripheral team for their acts of corruption and illegal activity. Once there is sufficient pressure on President Trump odds are he will leave at a time of his choosing leaving Vice-President JD Vance to assume the reigns of power only to get massacred at the polls in 2028.
Time will tell but do not get one’s hopes up that a lot of meaningful legislation or action will occur between now and November of 2028.