There is no more middle. The line is not going to hold.
And President Donald Trump will effectively become a lame duck President the minute he wakes up and his calendar reflects the year 2026.
So what happened tonight for this writer to make this declaration?
For the first time in THIRTY YEARS, a Democrat will be Mayor of Miami. And not by a small margin, try 59% to 41%. That’s not a blip, that’s an arse whuppin’ and the GOP in this state had best ditch its DUI loving chair and get serious or 2026 will become a nightmare of even greater proportions.
I was thinking that this could be a 1930 style midterm next year with Trump’s unpopular economic policies and failure to understand true capitalism versus a model similar to Biden’s with state centralized planning and interventionism. That appears now to be way too optimistic.
I now think that I am sadly wrong on both counts. Trump is only going to continue to expand his use of the government to intervene in private industry in a flailing attempt to support the stock markets, but continues to present patent falsehoods about inflation, affordability, and the economic condition of families that he has never experienced himself during his lifetime.
The false empathy of the Trump team is obvious but worse, the corporatism theory being implemented beyond being extremely unpopular with the lower 70% of the “K” in the economy is downright offensive to many.
Telling people it is raining while peeing on their legs is not popular nor a winning election strategy.
2026 has the potential to become a 1974 type of wipe out where the GOP now becomes an endangered species on the run due to their failure to govern once again. The failed promise of unbridled capitalism with proper, not excessive, oversight to prevent the average soul from being swindled out of their meager investments will become a major issue in 2026 and it will become a part of the reason the Republicans lose power for many years to come.