This is, if you'll allow me to belabor the obvious just once more, the year of the midterm elections. These aren't just any midterms; they are the midterms of President Trump's second term. President Trump hasn't been thinking small, and one year in, he's already accomplished a lot. Of course, he could have accomplished a lot more if the Congressional Republicans held more than a thin majority, especially in the House of Representatives, from which all spending bills flow.
National Democrats are certainly planning to make a midterm sweep their goal. They've told us so. Senate Democrat Chris Murphy (D-CT) is already promising his constituents a veritable Impeach-a-Palooza if the Democrats retake Congress.
Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut is sounding open to the prospect of a third impeachment trial for President Trump if Democrats regain control of the House in November’s midterm elections.
“I know that this president has committed 10 times more impeachable offenses in his second term as he did in his first term,” he said.
Mr. Murphy, who is thought to be considering a long-shot Democratic presidential bid in 2028, accused Mr. Trump of “stealing from the American people” and running an administration steeped in corruption.
“The House will make their own determination,” he said. “But I don’t think it’s any secret that the president’s level of corruption and illegality is nuclear grade in his second term compared to his first term.”
Now, Senator Murphy's not known for being the most cautious and analytical member of the Senate Democrat caucus. But we should take his statement seriously. The GOP has already started taking some steps to try to preserve its House majority, and hopefully to expand it; redistricting is just one step that's underway now.
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But that alone won't be enough. Our elected officials can do some things, like redistricting, and push through the legislation and policies that will make America safer and more prosperous. The Republican Party apparatus can do some things, like putting out the word about the successes of the Trump administration. The alternative new media, an example of which you are looking at right now, can do more of that.
In the end, though, it's all up to us.
Republicans have a reputation for low turnout in midterm elections. I've always found that baffling. These elections are every bit as critical as presidential election years. Control of Congress is every bit as essential as control of the Oval Office. Maybe it is because we have jobs, more demands on our time than many Democrats? Maybe we are, for unknown reasons, more inclined to complacency when our guys are in charge?
History tells us that the party that holds the White House loses Congressional seats in the midterms. While that's true, this time we face a greater challenge, and Senator Murphy has unwittingly given us another look at that challenge: The left, Democrats, and those even to their left, like the American Communist Party - yes, there is one - hate President Trump with a white-hot passion that I've never seen before, and I've been watching politics since the Carter administration. Oh, sure, they hated Ronald Reagan. They hated George W. Bush. But they have hated Trump with a passion. The mere mention of his name is enough to send many Democrats into a white-hot rage, and we think for even one nanosecond that this rage won't drive them to the polls in November, we're just as deluded as they are.
We have the opportunity to deny them, but it's up to us, to each individual one of us. Every single one of us has to get to the polls at all costs. If your state has early voting, go vote early. Bank that vote. If your state has mail-in balloting, take no chances; don't mail that ballot, drop it in a box yourself; most mail-in states do have ballot drop boxes. But vote. Don't drag your feet. Don't put it off. Vote. The Democrats have always been good at turning out their voters, but this time we have to beat them. We have to play that game better than them. Vote. Take a family member to vote. If you have Republican neighbors, offer to drive them to the polling place. (If your neighbors are Democrats, just wave to them as you go by.) If you're sick, wear a mask and go vote. If your foot hurts, go outside, cut a walking stick, and go vote. Vote if you have to crawl through a half-mile of scrap iron and busted glass on your bare hands and knees to cast that vote.
We can't afford to screw this up. Look at what's happening, right now, in Minneapolis, in Portland, in California. We can't have people like that running our country.
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Yes, the Impeach-a-Palooza will happen if we allow it; President Trump knows this.
Mr. Trump recently told Republican lawmakers that they must retain control of the House because he expects Democrats to impeach him again if they retake the House.
“You got to win the midterms, because if we don’t win the midterms, it’s just going to be … I mean, they’ll find a reason to impeach me,” Mr. Trump said at a GOP retreat.” I’ll get impeached.”
The GOP‑led House last year rejected a pair of Democratic attempts to launch impeachment proceedings against the president.
Much more than that will happen if we screw this up. Much worse will happen.
I know I've been harping on this for some time now, and I will keep doing so until the midterms are over, and hopefully we see an expanded Republican majority. History tells us we'll be disappointed in that. Many political pundits will tell us we will be disappointed in that. Plenty of partisan polls will tell us we will be disappointed in that. But we must defy all of them. We must win this. Not just for President Trump. Not just for the Republican politicians. We need to win this for the continued prosperity, perhaps even the continued existence of the republic.
Then, we get to do it all over again, for 2028.
