Democrats Didn’t Win – Republicans Lost. There’s a Way To Fix This

Trump dodged a bullet in Pennsylvania, but he couldn’t escape history on Tuesday. The most loved and hated president in modern times succumbed to the uniquely American tradition of midterm elections, where the electorate almost always exacts repressed revenge against the presidential winner two years prior.

Only in rare circumstances do presidents in power gain seats in the midterms. They almost always lose them. The trend continued yesterday.

Specifically, enough voters soured on Trump because of the unexpected Iran War and the resulting higher gas and diesel prices. The man who was fixing all of America’s problems under Biden during his first few months in office was unable to escape the tar pit of a war he had hoped to end quickly.

Make no mistake: It wasn’t all the war and gas prices. It was business that was not finished: DOGE ended too soon, election reforms were not enacted, abortion rules were not changed, Obama-Biden weaponization was not punished. Despite valiant efforts by Restoration of America and other conservative organizations, conservative Christians did not turn out to vote in significant enough numbers. As Ronald Reagan famously said after his own midterm blowout: “The meaning of the last election will not be found among those who voted. It will be found among those who stayed home—the biggest non-voter bloc in our nation’s history. And why did they stay home? Well, because they said they couldn’t see any difference between the two parties.”