Summary
Republicans face rising fears of a 2026 midterms backlash after defeats in key races, with some blaming Trump’s tariffs and Elon Musk’s influence.
Trump announced sweeping new trade levies Wednesday, alarming GOP strategists who warn of higher prices and economic risks.
Vulnerable Republicans urge a return to economic messaging, citing concerns the party is overreaching. Democrats are leveraging Musk’s unpopularity, linking him to GOP policies.
The GOP remains divided over how to respond.
You say 2 years, but the election is 19 months away and early campaigns will start in 8. Shit, we’ll probably see the first early messaging by the end of summer. So it’s no stretch to believe that some candidates for target races are being vetted already. And that means anger now makes a difference.
Campaign ads have already started for the Senate race in my state.
Oof.
Best of luck staying sane.
In the Summer of 2026, the protests over MULTIPLE outrages, by multiple demographic groups, will be happening all over the nation. HitlerPig will encourage his RedHats to incite violence, and then send in his Einsatsgruppen to quell the violence with even more ferocious violence.
By the end of the Summer, his deliberate violence will serve as justification for imposing Martial Law, and suspend all elections until peace is restored, which will never happen, since he controls the peace.
He has to time it properly so that the courts won’t have the opportunity to respond before Election Day. Once that day has passed without an election for the first time in American history (even during the Civil War), American Democracy is ended, and we are officially a MAGA dictatorship.
Then it’s Go Time.
There’s elections every year so 7 months not 19 before we may start to see effects. Heck Florida has special elections June 10.