The initial battle may be won but the war for control has just begun for Democrats. Voter wrath that toppled Republican control in Congress will turn again in 2028 if Democrats don’t address the causes of that wrath.
Combative conservative blogger Eric Erickson wrote that while high prices and the Iran war were key across-the-board issues, there was much more kindling voter wrath. He listed actions by President Donald Trump that infuriated distinct groups of voters: tariffs; treating affordability as a hoax; corruption, incompetence, and cruelty; playing nicer with Russia than with our allies; overly aggressive deportations and accidental arrests of Hispanic American citizens; and never-ending threats and lies.
“Voters are tired of the weirdos in Trump Land who trade on social media memes, latent racist memes, a fixation on winning Twitter, and nonsense over seriousness,” wrote Erickson. Ordinary Americans want trade and war policies fixed “more than a culture war.”
Can Democrats fix things and rein in the President?
Democrat leaders say addressing affordability will be their top priority with ending the war in Iran the first step. Others say they intend to undo Medicaid and food stamp benefit cuts to low-income Americans and reduce health care costs.
Such acts require legislation. With their new majorities, Democrats may be able to get bills passed, but for them to become law, the President must sign them. Trump has already said he may become “Mr. Veto.” Democrats did not secure large enough majorities to override vetoes.
And they can’t count on Republicans for much help. Republicans will have little motivation to help Democrats pass bills. Indeed, they will seek ways to ensure Democrats fail to boost their chances for regaining control.
Failed promises will quickly undermine Democrats' newly won support.
Thanks to Supreme Court rulings expanding executive power, Democrats can do little to rein in Trump. He can still issue his daily executive orders and ignore Congress. Democrats only avenue to curtail him would be another impeachment. But Democrats won’t have the votes in the Senate to get him out of office.
The avenue for Democrats to set the stage for 2028 victories will be unpopular. Make deals with Republicans, like Vice President J. D. Vance, who want to end wars and with farm state Republicans who want to address affordability. Pass veto-proof war powers and trade legislation that give the Congress a greater say. Work with Republicans to avoid government shutdowns. Then count on Trump continuing to be Trump to keep voters riled up.
This would require Democrats to be smarter than Republicans were over the past two years. How likely is that? More likely, continued havoc and voter wrath will set the stage for 2028.
“A gentle answer turns away wrath” – Proverbs 15:1
Crawford is an author and syndicated columnist from Jackson.
34 comments:
Short answer, no. Democrats just want power, for all the change they want they are putting the same people in charge. You guys fell for the con they pulled. At least after two years of Schumer politics, we will go back red.
IF the democrats can move more to the middle where most people live they will be successful. IF the democrats pander to the fringes..they’ll be tossed out!
No dei, no men in women’s sports, KEEP THE BORDER CLOSED !
Problem is we increased the money supply 40% in two years. Gave us 9% inflation. Even now, it hovers around 3.5%, outstripping wage gains. Doesn't sound as bad until you start compounding it every year.
Once prices go up, they don't come down (excluding commodities such as oil) at the retail level. If they do, we have deflation and that means the economy is in the tank (see 2008).
So Colom says we have to get a handle on affordability. Ok, nice goal. We agreee. However, what can he do?
Price controls? That's a disaster. Always has been always will be. Cut spending and reduce government's impact on economy? Not going to happen with a Democrat. Not their policy. Increase spending to "assist" people suffering from affordability? Fuel on the fire. Just saying his options are rather limited, especially facing a veto from the President.
This reads as denial. This was not a Blue tsunami or a particularly bruising but historically expected midterm loss. It was a political castration. And it's not short term. 2028 will be another sweep—taking the White House and likely turning Florida. Without Texas, Republicans have no viable path to an electoral college victory. The magnitude of the Texas turnabout will not swing back in two years. Get used to this. It's a Blue world from now until 2030 at the very earliest.
The Republican Party defections may surprise you Fish . The smart politician reads the tea leaves. Trumps Stench will harm the party into 2032 or longer. Trumps Veto can and will be overridden . As for taxes it’s simple and no one nows that better than Elon Musk. If only he had paid the money he spent trying to buy a Senator and Governor in taxes, who knows maybe they wouldn’t go after billionaires. Most people, especially in Mississippi have nothing to worry about. Trump hasn’t left them anything to tax.
Can "Democrats deliver change the voters want" ?? They just did !
@KF....
It was the war STUPID
Do the math. Taxes will increase for those making more than $250,000 a year. Taxes should be 90% for every dollar over 1 million. International tax is required to pay down US debt. Billionaires will be gutted. AI will be taxed at 99%. Removing people from jobs ….the people of we the people ….will not sit well. Get ready for change.
The maniac Trump just announced that his response to the Democrat movement will be scorched earth with no compromise no matter how the results hurt the suffering citizens. He fired his chief of staff and brought in a wartime madman who will fight tooth and nail for the boss's vision no matter how selfish and unreasonable. Two years of gridlock.
“It’s the economy stupid.”
But the Dem party is obsessed with hating Trump, loving Muslims, supporting trans alphabet crew, and other fringe issues. They have long shown they slept through Econ 101!
The writing is on the wall, the Artificial Intelligence stock and debt market crash will arrive before the 2028 election.
The blame for the economic collapse and bailouts will attach to all the Artifician Intelligence pimps and to the Republican Party.
There will be change: Open borders, defunded police, OR releases for violent criminals, abolish ICE, etc. etc.
If 'reining in the president' is the objective or is what the author thinks the American people give a shit about, the day is lost and the article is meaningless.
Democrats have no cohesive party, have no relatable platform, don't know who their leader(s) is/are, not sure who they want to follow, half of them can't tolerate the old heads and half of them can't stand the new yeads, have no idea what the common man/woman thinks or wants or needs and are not remotely aware of an international set of goals.
And all of that leads to nothing but internal fighting for the next two years, non-stop. Americans with walking around sense, who vote, will recognize this for what it is and ensure that no democrat socialist president wins the next election. It'll take awhile, but republicans will be in control of the house, the senate and the oval office within the next seven years. Then we start over again and 30% of us will be underground or on a mantel by then.
During 4 years of Biden America welcomed the 3rd world’s garbage and criminals. They were given debit cards, plane tickets, hotel rooms, free medical care.
Democrats helped them break our laws. Everybody locks their doors at night to keep the bad guys out, including Democrats. Why can’t America lock its doors? Let’s get the wall built.
Fetterman is a moderate. They want him ousted. Haley Stevens a moderate, they want her ruined for life. No moderates are left. Joe Manchin said he doesn’t recognize the party anymore. It will never come back to the middle again.
It’s a feel good moment but when Rs won’t obey court orders - not much can be done.
Can democrats deliver? Of course! Just look at the free, faster buses and free daycare that Mamdani has provided in New York to fulfill the campaign promises that got him elected. Oh, wait, never mind.
I didn’t vote Democrat but I did stay home in protest of Trump’s betrayals and to oppose AIPAC’s Iran war. I am not loyal to a party. Next election I could vote either way. May the best America First policy win.
It's a rejection of MAGA, and Trump! Mississippi did pretend his name was on the ballot! Some of us also thought our Republicans were cowards who just " bent the knee" and allowed Trump to exercise every ill - thought out impulse. HINT: We did tariffs once before in our history (and they were based on trade, not across the board as Trump decided to do and were a lesser disaster), and some of us understand " checks and balances" matter. He is also rude and crude and a horrible role model for our young people! I just hope we got rid of chicken livered and lazy members of Congress found those who are leaders rather than followers and have the smarts and guts to turn the economy around in time. I hope to have smart, well-educated, well -mannered Republicans like Ronald Reagan and Thad Cochran to vote for again! We don't need another narcissistic, crude, old f**t who cares more for their golf game, fancy planes and fancy ornaments than for the Nation! He was unfaithful to good women who were immigrants as was his own family! He had to find former Soviets to wed! There's your HINT! How'd you miss it! Putin's puppy!
11:59am
Find a real reason to avoid blaming your own shortcomings on Trump. I'm rich in the quality of my siblings, wife and children and live modestly and simply in a comfortable home. I drive a ten year old turbo 4 cylinder, which is great on mpg, cook most meals at home. So many around Jackson drive a $60,000-$75,000 double cab pickup, eat pricey (unhealthy) drive through meals, are deep in debt, but blame Trump and GOP for their own reckless choices.
@11:22 maybe you didn’t take a civics class but unless the senate comes up with 60 votes it’s likely the president will veto all there bills! So you voted for gridlock!
"Republicans will have little motivation to help Democrats pass bills. Indeed, they will seek ways to ensure Democrats fail to boost their chances for regaining control."
That's the problem. And that's what pisses people off.
It's the focus on political gamesmanship instead of fixing problems. It's politics as sport.
Mitch McConnell reveled in it for years, and made it his trademark to use the letter of the rules to defeat the spirit of the rules. Now that's he's about to die, he's wringing his hands over the state of the political landscape he helped usher in.
Trump hasn't done anything politicians weren't already doing. He just did more of it, louder, and out in the open. Basically, he beat them at their own game. But it's still a game, and that's the problem.
Democrats would need 60 votes to pass any bill they supported because it’s likely the president will veto it. I don’t believe anything will change. None of their bills will pass. All the democrats want is to impeach Trump but they will never have enough votes in the senate to do it. For all you RINOs who voted for a liberal democratic because you hate Trump REMEMBER Trump only has two years but a senator term is SIX years!
So you support open borders,higher taxes for everyone,socialism and gun control
Somebody who sits at home, "darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there" and smiles at being a non-participant because he hates somebody else - bothers to mention party, war and policy and thinks he's taken seriously?
His funeral will resemble that of Eleanor Rigby - Unattended.
The thing that going to get the ball rolling is ending the war and getting fuel prices down . I don’t know where Kingfish buys gas, but its price in alway in a flux. When idiots mess around in the Middle East .
Finding 4 senators will not be a problem, their are at least 10 who will sign on .
Trump is about as much a "true Republican" as AOC, Osama bin El Sayed, and Pocahontas Warren are "true Democrats." These people are grifters using whatever conjob happens to work at the moment. CHS isn't really a grifter as much as a coat-tailer.
If Colom, Talarico, Ossoff, etc. actually prove to be as they appear - actual honest Democrats who are just sometimes wrong within the bounds of sanity - and the GOP can find a few actual honest Republicans, also just sometimes wrong within the bounds of sanity, 2028 might be another step in the march back to normality, with one side or the other sometimes being wrong, but within the bounds of sanity. If neither of those come to pass, it'll get a bit worse before things finally return to a mostly sane even if sometimes wrong center-ish and sane-ish status. But the good news is that things will almost certainly eventually get there because for all that human nature gets wrong, thus far it has eventually returned to it.
Republicans don’t need Trump anymore, he’s a lame duck and loser. Impeachment would give Vance a leg up.
The problem is, Democrats will have to fight the DSA for control. That will be first, second they have to go after everyone that Trump knows. Between those two things, we will be in 2028. They will get nothing accomplished and are stuck with Schumer or Jeffries as SOH. Think about this, with the war, inflation and tariffs, interest rates and gas are still lower than the Biden years. And you guys all voted them back in office. Woke 2.0 is back baby. Children are back in charge.
It will 2 years of nothing but impeachments, pandering, and excuses from the left. They’ll do just enough to keep their pets happy and blame Trump for their shortcomings. Also, don’t get your hopes up for the “files” even if the next president is a Dem.
It takes a 2/3 majority of votes in both the House and Senate to override a presidential veto.
Two points: one, Betteridge’s Law of Headlines clearly states, “Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'".
Secondly, Trump is in his ninth decade. He’s not going to finish his term, one way or another.
Trump still has 2 years and control of every government agency as well as The Supreme Court. I suspect educated voters are simply waiting for him to get more obviously senile or ill so that Congress can comfortably act if he's own cabinet doesn't. It will take a while to fix what he broke and still may not be possible. And, he'll take what he can with him. He thinks it's " his plane" and " his 24K gold" even thought he's already enriched himself while in office with " insider trading" knowledge.
Krusatyr We put two children through college while working in " the real world" after we married. We also didn't have them until one of us finished college and then we took turns getting our advanced educations while one of us worked. Our grandparents endured the Depression. Our parents weathered WWII in the service of our Nation with one mother working in the "canteen" and the other mother feeding the other farmers sons so they had the strength to work their family farms so the whole town didn't starve. It was the family faith in God and not squandering any talents we had that eventually restored the family security and secured our own. Our children are happily married college graduates as we are even after more than a half century marriage and they are very successful on their own with us only giving them good educations, good values and good manners and faith. Our grandchildren both got full rides to the highest ranked schools in the country. We've had bad cars and now fine ones. Like our and grandparents and parents we valued education. As grandmother said, " you can't lose an education and the knowledge it provides when times are hard but you can lose every dime and anything you don't own in full!" It's the education that helps make good decisions and good investments in the future so you can weather hard times. But, then we think that includes our community and not just us. And we still find we need to learn...modernity changes things. I hope you can find the benefits of an open heart and mind! And that your children and grandchildren can help you learn new things as they come along!
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