Analysis is offered that the midterm election results appear mathematically or politically impossible. However, regardless, it is very damaging to shriek with hysteria that the November midterms were an “extinction level event,” catastrophe, or blow-out against Republicans. Alarmist rhetoric is sparking a stampede to adopt left-wing policies. Regardless of the details of the voting, Republicans must not fall for the manufactured panic psyop claiming a collapse of conservative principles. Dozens of things were involved in the midterms, but surrendering to socialists should not be one of them.
In most midterm elections, the political party that holds the White House loses seats in Congress. On Nov. 3, the Republican Party lost an estimated seven U.S. Senate seats with two undecided. And Republicans lost at least 40 House seats, with others still being massaged, er, counted. (Alaska is a disaster for Democrats with both Dan Sullivans together winning 3,227 more votes than the Democrat Mary Peltola, triggering a crisis).
Compare Nov. 3 to Democrats losing nine U.S. Senate seats under Barack Obama in 2014 and 13 House seats. That followed Barack Obama losing another six U.S. Senate seats and a stunning 63 House seats in 2010. (This analysis focuses on midterms like we just had and skips presidential year elections.)
Compare this election with Democrats losing eight U.S. Senate seats and a whopping 54 House seats in 1994 under Bill Clinton. In 1986 under Ronald Reagan, Republicans lost eight U.S. Senate seats.
So the Republicans’ results on Nov. 3, 2026, are of course quite typical, normal, always disappointing, but not in any way grounds for cataclysmic conclusions. Routinely losing seats in Congress is not by itself a reason to do even more damage now.
We are shocked because for at least four years the Democrats have dropped their mask and openly revealed craziness and irrationality we never thought we’d see. What is unusual this time is that we thought our fellow Americans would finally recognize how bad the Democrat Party really is. So we had high hopes. The issue is not that the midterms were unusual in party swings, but that allowing today’s Democrats anywhere near power was such an obvious mistake.
The impact of left-wing media is still dominant. Patriots need to massively increase support for conservative media. We have a bigger job ahead than we thought. Most of the supposed weaknesses in MAGA performance are entirely fictional. The dominant factor is that voters believed things that are just false.
Europe is burning, and the Democrats are determined to open wide the proverbial gates of Rome to let them in here. Democrats are expected to open the Texas border and end Texas’ cooperation with ICE, allowing millions more trespassers to flood into the nation. Millions of illegal aliens competing for housing drives up housing costs. Trump removed 2 million trespassers from the housing market, yet the public still complains about “affordability.”
CITGO on Route 27 South of Sebring, Florida, has gas for $3.59 per gallon. Won’t gas top $9 per gallon after Democrats’ environmental policies take effect? Does anyone see Democrats doing anything to lower the price of gasoline without savaging each other? Crude oil (wholesale) is low despite a sleepy “war,” but retail gas station prices are high. What’s going on? (Secretary of Energy, call your office.) The world’s 8.4 billion people continue to industrialize and modernize. Gasoline cannot be less than $3.50 per gallon in today’s dollars.
The U.S. Census Bureau announced that real (after inflation) median household income was $87,460 in 2025, the highest since 1967. Employment among non-retiring workers seeking jobs is at a record high.
Younglings who order every day from restaurants by DoorDash delivery are spending lots of money they do not have to spend. Special for this column, your author bought a Burrito Supreme for $6.74 on Friday, not $20 for a burrito. Shopping wisely is required.
I grew up to my grandfather explaining over and over how he enlisted in the U.S. Navy in his 40s, six months before our country went to war. He wanted to fight the fascists “over there” and not wait until the jackboots were marching down Park Street where his wife and daughter lived.
Putting “America First” never meant “America Alone.” Israel is fighting America’s enemies “over there” on the other side of the planet, keeping them busy. As Chuck Norris’ 1985 film “Invasion USA (Full Movie)” warned us in 1985, we are a nation of soft targets: “America has not been invaded in 200 years.”
If Israel falls, Jihadists will be blowing up public schools in U.S. neighborhoods, machine-gunning U.S. shopping malls and school buses, burning down churches and apartment buildings, and killing Americans on U.S. soil. So you want a suicide bomber in your grocery store as your family is waiting in line?
We should recall that if France had not been our ally, the American colonies would have lost the American Revolutionary War. France sent crucial gunpowder, money, troops and ultimately a good chunk of the French Royal Navy that bottled up the British at Yorktown. France literally fought for us for its own reasons concerning Britain, not because American patriots hypnotized King Louis XVI or bribed his courtiers.
Islam started a war against the U.S. when Thomas Jefferson was president. Of all the wars Israel has been the victim of, not one has the United States ever fought in. The unclaimed proverb goes “You might not be interested in war, but war might be interested in you.”
The 2026 midterm election results were normal, typical, expected and predictable. Trying to draw earth-shattering conclusions from what was predictable is illogical. Conservative Republicans certainly got their hopes up, while other Republicans sided with the Democrats. Neil Bush endorsed the Democrat Talarico.
Must Republicans do better? Absolutely. Since the 1964 battle against country-club Rockefeller Republicans, the donor class GOP has always been eager to burn down the building rather than allow the voters to take back control. Tone-deaf Mike Pence now wants to lead a “nice” new Republican Party in which he gives Democrats anything they want. The establishment cannot comprehend that we do not worship Donald Trump. Rather, we despise them.
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