The Republican Midterm Disaster will be Well-Deserved

It is becoming increasingly clear that Republicans are probably going to get walloped in the coming midterm elections. Strategic errors and failure to deliver on the issues the base cares about most will no doubt dampen enthusiasm and thus turnout. When combined with the frothing, rabid anti-Trump energy that has been building among woke leftists, it’s very possible Republicans lose both the House and the Senate.

Strategic Blunders

It’s one thing to lose because of circumstances beyond your control, as was the case with Covid in 2020. However, when you walk right into a sucker punch you can see coming from a mile away, you deserve the consequences.

The healthcare blunder of 2025 essentially alienated 22 million voters, of which roughly 9 million are Republicans and 5 million are independents or lean Republican. Like virtually everyone on Obamacare, these people have experienced significant increases in their premiums since the enhanced subsidies enacted during Covid were allowed to expire.

Many issues that impact voters negatively are forgotten over time, but not this one. The people affected by the loss of the subsidies are reminded of it every-single-month when they make their insurance payment.

Intellectually, they may understand why the subsidies were allowed to expire since they were specifically targeted for Covid relief, and Lord knows we need as many spending cuts as we can get. Still, logic takes a back seat to the diminishing balance in their checkbooks.

What is most disturbing about the subsidy issue is that every Republican, including President Trump, who was taking office for the 2025 session knew the subsidies were expiring, but they did nothing preemptively. There were decent ideas out there, such as Rand Paul’s plan to allow consumers to use their Costco membership to buy health insurance, but as the subsidies were expiring, Republicans acted as if they had no idea what was coming.

Strike One.

The Save America Act

Next to immigration, the most important mission the American people gave the Republican Congress and presidency was to fix our rigged election system.

At this point, virtually anyone who isn’t a woke leftist agrees that the unusual activities in the 2020 presidential election strongly suggest it was rigged. One need only look at Joe Biden’s vote total to realize something was terribly wrong. Biden supposedly outperformed his Holiness Barack Obama by 13 million and 17 million votes, respectively.

Uh, yeah, okay. You need more proof? Look at the line graphs in the swing states showing the surge in Biden votes after the vote counting was shut down at 2 am on election night.

So, bowing to intense pressure from the Republican base, and recognizing that 83% of all American voters support voter ID, the Senate reluctantly took up the Save America Act, which provides a uniform code for conducting elections nationally. The provisions of SAA are simple: individuals must provide a birth certificate and another valid form of ID to register to vote and must provide a photo ID when voting. States must verify voter rolls.

That’s it…

And yet, Republicans in the Senate can’t figure out how to pass this common-sense bill even with a majority. They cry they need 60 votes to avoid a filibuster, which is untrue. They could eliminate the 60-vote threshold, which Democrats will most assuredly do when they regain power, but they don’t even need to do that. While a talking filibuster would be a procedural war between Senate Democrats and Republicans, Senate Majority Leader John Thune could prevent endless amendments and keep the Senate in session as long as 51 senators stayed within the chamber. A talking filibuster would delay passage, but Democrats can’t talk forever. It would be hard and grueling, but victory would be certain; yet Republicans don’t have the stomach for either approach.

In the end, it’s very likely the Save America Act will either go down in flames, or we’ll get some watered-down version that still allows Democrats to cheat.

Strike Two.

Mass Deportation

One of President Trump’s key commitments when he was campaigning was the mass deportation of illegal aliens. He mentioned it at nearly every appearance prior to the election. Naturally, woke leftists hate this idea because it would deprive them of the ability to further pack the census, so the allocation of Congressional seats would be dramatically altered, and they would also lose votes since the illegals would no longer be in America.

The mass deportation issue came to a head in Minnesota, where Greg Bovino, the leader of Operation Metro Surge, with the support of the former Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, took a hard stand in deporting illegals, regardless of whether they had committed a violent crime.

The situation escalated until woke leftists unleashed their most potent weapon to date: suicide martyrs. Alex Pretti and Renee Good, two committed leftists, purposely inserted themselves in the middle of tense law enforcement operations and carried out threatening and provocative actions. In Good’s case, she rammed an ICE officer with her car. In Pretti’s case, he physically assaulted officers while carrying a loaded pistol.

Certainly, both had to understand that the likelihood of a tragic outcome in these circumstances was extremely high, yet they did it anyway. Why? Because many psychotic leftists would gladly give up their lives for the cause of authoritarian communism in America.

Unfortunately, the tactic worked. Bovino was demoted and reassigned; Noem was demoted and humiliated, and Tom Homan took over immigration operations in Minnesota.

The result?

As you can see from the chart below, arrests of illegal aliens in Minnesota have tapered dramatically since Homan took over. From a peak of 60 per day in December and early January, to 30 per day in early February, to 10 per day in early March, to none most recently.

You hear nothing about mass deportations anymore from the administration.

Strike three.

The Republican Groundhogs Day Movie

If you think you’ve seen this movie before, you have. In 2016, Republicans controlled all three branches of government and did virtually nothing to reward their constituents. Republicans seem to be playing to run out the clock in hopes that Democrats take back control of Congress. This allows the RINOs to do what they do best: criticize Democrats without any real intention of doing anything differently if they regain control of the government. They are much happier as the minority party.

Unless something dramatic happens in the next few months, the midterms are probably going to be a slaughter of epic proportions, and Republicans once again did it to themselves, and this time, whether we like it or not, Trump is complicit.

Get ready. We’re in for a rough 2027.