As Americans tire of Donald Trump, a Democratic midterm ‘tsunami’ could sweep the GOP out of power
It was a wake-up call for America. In January, Donald Trump took the oath of office, declared himself “saved by God to make America great again” and issued a barrage of executive orders. In the ensuing months the US president and his allies moved at breakneck speed and seemed indomitable.
But as 2025 draws to a close with Trump struggling to stay awake at meetings, the prevailing image is of a driver asleep at the wheel. Opinion polls suggest that Americans are turning against him. Republicans are heading for the exit ahead of congressional contests next November that look bleak for the president’s party.
“He came into office and, like a blitzkrieg, was violating laws and the constitution,” said Larry Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota. “The American political process is slow-moving and so he was able to do things that were extraordinary.
“Dragged down by an unpopular president” makes it sound like he’s not the leader of the Republican party, he’s not fully in control, he’s not giving orders all the way down. “Intentionally torpedoed by its leader and self-anointed king” might be more accurate. But I digress.
And yet Democrats will still manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. I am expect them to lose seats in the election.
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Not an American (although I have lived there for several years and travelled extensively), it doesn’t matter if the Democrats win.
I say this as someone who always votes and has done tactical voting many times.
The US centre right is incapable of addressing corruption and criminality, not only because the party apparatus is itself corrupt, but because most American centre right voters are simply too well off to risk rocking the boat. They’ll keep trying to avoid addressing corruption until it’s too late.
The corruption of the centre right is a symptom, with the cause being American society (specifically a large portion of centre right voters).
This is not doomerism in the least. In any country/context, the first step to overcoming immense odds is recognizing what the problem is. If you don’t take the first step, you’ll definitely never get to your goal.
It is not my intention to be petty and have a laugh. Until centre right public totally rejects comical American-style polemics about alleged commitment to “free speech” and “free markets”, they will never address corruption and debasement of their institutions.
And yet Obama and other senior centre right figures are still parroting the same shallow, tedious copytext that they’ve been pitching for the last years.
Don’t worry, the regime won’t let there be a legitimate election
The cowards could probably still save themselves if they did the right thing and removed him, but they won’t so they are complicit
The more I read about it, the less likely I believe it will occur.
Even if they won every single election the Dems will do nothing and wonder where their support went.
Because this happens every fucking time.
LMAO, a mid-term tsunami. Sure, probably brought by Santa
And the Democrats will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, for totally unknown reasons.
The reason is they won’t listen to voters who are willing to left perfect be the enemy of better.
That’s a huge issue with voters honestly. They will vote against the democratic nominee because of 1 issue but are ok with a radical far right racist fascist because…Israel?
Really? Because I predict that millions of Americans wont be voting Democrat or at all because of the utter incompetence of the Dems. Not to mention the immediate bending over for the GOP after winning 3(?) Elections, reopening the govt in exchange for a promise, when the right was in the worst position it has been in decades and just when they were really feeling the heat.
Plus, we all want the democrats to be the ones to make reasonable laws we can all get behind but they dont do that. Like the “high capacity” magazine bans. In a time where more leftists are arming themselves than ever before, nobody wants that. They keep warning of a fascist takeover while simultaneously disarming citizens. Or the fact they voted to fund the military to the tune of $1 trillion. Or the democrats that voted with Republicans against youth trans care. Or their response to most republican shenanigans, a strongly worded letter.
Democrats have been doing nothing but fumbling the easiest victories they could ever have over and over again. Idk how anyone can expect democrats to win anything with this old guard establishment demo still in power.
Say what you will about the GOP, and I hate what their doing as well. But at the end of the day they get their shit done. For better or worse, at least they dont just sit on their power. I wish I could say the same about the dems
I certainly hope so, but I’m afraid the Democrats will fuck it up or Leon Hitler will manipulate the voting machines with a “minor” update.
“The president is a fuckup. He still has my complete support!” -Republicans.
If even half of the leopardsatemyface screenshots are real and not made up that’ll be the case.
They’re all along the lines of “Mr President I love everything youre doing and I’m glad I voted for you and everything is incredible but I cant afford to eat now and my gran died of totally preventable causes. Still love everything about you though”
Somehow the Dems will shit the bed on this.
Even if they don’t the two party system ensures that the Republicans will get back in power eventually and the party is not going to change so the likelihood is that you get someone just as bad as the current crop of grifters but more competent and less geriatric.
Throw a brick through the Overton window!
If there is one force you can always count on is democrats snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
If only there was something they could do do about the reasons for that plummeting public acceptance of their own party and its leadership…
“If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism; they will abandon democracy.”
That quote is attributed to one of Bush’s speechwriters.
He has seen the monster from the inside.
Can’t wait for the Dems to get power and just do a lighter version of what Trump is doing and everyone to fucking love it.
It’s usually how it goes lol
Rarely do they actually learn and change for the better. They just get better at messaging around the same shit and people delude themselves into thinking there is any functional difference.
It’s funny, we hear about “be nice or you will push them further right” but really it’s the shitty policies that push people to look for more extreme solutions. Wait, that isn’t funny…
