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.
Fucking traitors should be nervous about much more than that.
That reminds me, I need to sharpen my guillotine.
"There’s a lot of support in these communities for getting tough on trade, for cutting government spending, but if tariffs spin out of control, and there’s no results on trade deals, then rural communities are really going to be hit by that.”
There aren’t going to be any “results” from “trade deals” that will help rural communities. They’re just going to have to suck up what they voted for.
While many of the president’s allies are sympathetic to his argument that the tariffs will encourage companies to invest in domestic manufacturing and production
Uhh, with what money will they invest? They’ve given most of their money back to investors. Also, you only invest big money in countries where you have faith in their futures. Trump has irrevocably damaged the US’ image and relationships. No one is going to trust us any more, and they’re right in doing that.
I’ve been hoping for a MAGoo/GOP war since 2015.
otoh, if DOGE really manages to mess up Social Security payments, there’s no way the GOP can recover.
otoh, if DOGE really manages to mess up Social Security payments, there’s no way the GOP can recover.
Republicans straight up nuked the economy in 2008 and they were back in the Congressional Majority two years later. Same thing happened in 2020.
Gerrymandering makes many of these maps mathematically unwinnable for Democrats
Big difference between ruining the Wall Street types and taking money out of someone’s pocket.
Social Security has never missed any payments in 80 years. It’s the difference between milk going up a dollar and you not getting your paycheck.
I get what you’re saying, but I am also extremely aware of how fucking stupid the American electorate is, up to and including having all government support taken away and responding with “thank you sir, may I have another”. American conservatives are deeply stupid.
Didn’t forget the Democrats strong suit is striking out at tee ball. It should be easy to capitalize on this, but I just know they’ll totally fuck it up.
And on purpose. They aren’t a leftist party.
Oh yeah, absolutely.
Also, I’m totally stealing “striking out at tee ball” lmao
Snatching Defeat from the jaws of Victory is the Democratic brand. See 2000, 2004, 2016, 2020.
If they’re willing to brazenly attack Social Security, maybe they don’t care about elections anymore.
That’s the issue. If they really start screwing with SS payments, it means that they are confident that they have control of future elections. Then the only question will be if they do it softly, and rig the elections and claim they are 100% fair and square (which the Dems will support, like 2020), or if they decide to go full on Nazi, and cancel elections altogether, then enthusiastically and ruthlessly murder anyone who dares to question it.
Looking at the players, like Pukin, Skum, Kapo Stephen “PeeWee Himmler” Miller, Steve “Unwiped Asshole” Bannon, et al, my bet is that they’ll go for the full on Nazi dictatorship. They aren’t building a 30K capacity concentration camp in Guantanamo for giggles.
Im not so sure it’d be that easy. The conservative media cesspool is closed loop. They will lie and blame the Dems for not making it break proof or some other BS and the sheep will eat it up.
We will need Dems to go onto the shows and blast the message day and night that it’s broken bc GOP allowed I lt it be broken by an illegal imagrant.
Our hope now is in the leopards
People used to say Reagan and his courting of the ‘moral majority’ were going to fracture the party and cause it to destroy itself with the embrace of a massively divisive religious rhetoric. It’s wishful thinking at best.
there’s no way the GOP can recover.
I want this to be true, but it just isn’t. A third of the country will follow along with whatever mental gymnastics are required to blame democrats. Another third are just not paying enough attention and vote on pure vibes, if at all. If dems try to run an unlikable, centrist candidate with a mixed at best record it will end up a toss up. And the electorate at large will forget everything that is happening now within eight years.
I wouldn’t go that far. The maga Republicans are obviously so easily manipulated without a shred of critical thought left that they will do whatever their overlords want of them.
3 months in and they are worried about 2y down the road. Oof
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.
There’s elections every year so 7 months not 19 before we may start to see effects. Heck Florida has special elections June 10.
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.
Piece of cake. Just make it a illegal to vote for anyone but Republicans.
I’m reading that in a positive light: abolish political parties (i.e. no more magic ‘R’ for the mouth-breathers to look for).
Everyone (sane, insane, benevolent, evil, corrupt, etc) runs as Republican. Nice little loophole.
I’ve been saying this for years now, but in the opposite direction… everyone register Republican. If everyone is a “Republican,” who do they purge? Not their voters!
You mad bastard, that’s twisted genius!
Turnabout’s fair play 🤷♂️ My state-level politicians have been running as Democrats and then switching parties after they’re elected. 😠
They should be worried, everything is stacking up to be a classic mid-term bloodbath, just like 2010.
And that is exactly why there will either be a heavily and obviously rigged election, or HitlerPig will impose Martial Law over some False Flag operation (probably ferocious violence against peaceful protesters), and suspend all elections until peace is restored, which will never happen because he controls the peace.
Why would the Fear That? Their Policies, of which they CAMPAIGNED and RAN ON, HELP Working Class Americans! The ONLY Reason they would Fear a Backlash is if they KNOW their Policies are HURTING People! But that would be SILLY because they LITERALLY RAN ON THESE EXACT POLICIES THEYRE ENACTING! WHO in their Right Mind would VOTE for Someone who’s going to RUIN THEIR LIFE? SURELY not The Well Educated Republican Base!
They should be concerned about being hung for treason if they keep supporting a coup.
Point to a second Republican that has actually been punished for their criminal misconduct.
Is Matt Gaetz in jail yet? Did Dick Cheney spend any time behind bars? What about Richard Nixon?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_federal_politicians_convicted_of_crimes
There’s plenty of them. 13 during GW Bush’s administration alone (and 3 Democrats)
I don’t think the justice system will do anything.
Until Republican lawmakers change their voting patterns, these articles mean nothing and IMO are poor journalism. Lawmakers can say anything about their reelection worries and polls almost always show swings in the opposite direction after elections.
If they actually cared they do have the power to stop Trump.
Don’t worry though, if people are even allowed to vote in 2016 Republican voters wil have long forgotten by then what it was like to have rights and be able to afford groceries, and will be happy to vote to let the leopards eat the faces of the next outgroup in line.
I’ll celebrate once it comes to past.
I’ll celebrate (1) once it’s come to pass, (b) the Democrats have actually started standing up to … well, anybody, © the resistance has started to have irrevocable wins, and (d) all the people and institutions that have actively enabled this situation are gone.
The Dems have to start by standing up to the Quislings in their own party, like Chuck Schumer.
Booker’s speech was an obvious audition for Schumer’s seat, so let’s have the vote, get Schumer out of his leadership position, and then force him out of office in the same humiliating fashion as when he stabbed Al Franken in the back. Then AOC can take Schumer’s seat, and we can go to war with the MAGA Nazis.
If I believed that, they’d stop doing stupid shit.
Since they aren’t, I don’t believe they are worried in thetvemidhdjdm
Never seen someone give up on the last sentence they were writing like that
Honestly, I think he just stroked out
Actually I was dosing off. I had thought I wrote “in the slightest” but I remember it being real blurry before I hit enter.
I’m leaving it because I’m laughing my ass off about how it turned out
Been there, my friend!
Drink a covfefe.
I do all the time on phone keyboards
this is all song and dance. trust nothing that is said that remotely sounds good for their opposition.
Yeah, I don’t buy anything about how the public is leaning anymore. I assume everyone is conservative and will continue to vote conservative in every election until I see any evidence otherwise.
After the 2024 election, the public can’t be trusted and the media absolutely cannot be, in regards to elections especially.
Exactly.
I remember Mitch saying that the reason he voted against the second impeachment was that he felt Trump’s Jan 6 crimes would be better adjucated in criminal court. And before that, I remember Linsday saying that if Trump wins the GOP nomination in 2016, the GOP will get “destroyed… and we’ll deserve it”.
Never underestimate the ability of Republican voters to enthusiastically vote against their interests…
Trump’s Jan 6 crimes would be better adjucated in criminal court
As soon as he said that, I knew they’d never hold him accountable. Because I knew they’d immediately move to “Congress didn’t convict him so there’s nothing to see here”, “if we have to go to court, let’s bring in every stalling tactic possible” followed by “why are you investigating such an old event”. I hate the Republicans.
The only problem with Republicans losing is that it means that the Democrats have to win.
They are masters of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory for sure.
No they aren’t. They have cheated and gerrymandered their way into tenured positions, the only way out is them dying or retiring.
