Note: This column was distributed on November 8.
It’s not over until it’s over. The 2026 midterm election is not over yet. They’re still counting votes in Alaska and Mississippi. You know we’ve seen this movie before, only it’s worse this time. Washington is singing the Blues again regardless of what happens in Alaska or Mississippi.
President Trump campaigned as if he were on the ballot, asking overflow crowds at all his rallies to vote as if his name were on the ballot! Not to be outdone by this strategy, the Democrats continued their original 2016 strategy of opposing everything Trump, just as if his name were on the ballot. The election was sort of a convoluted game of tug-of-war with both sides pulling the same way.
So, the Blue Wave is in, supported by the Blue media who didn’t remember what happened the last time voters changed the economy’s driver from Red to Blue. Trump had driven the inflation rate down to 1.9% when Biden took the wheel. Blue Biden bumped that rate up to 9.1% in six months flat. And the media said everything was great now that Biden had undone so many of Trump’s programs.
But this election painted the Congress dozens of hues of Blue with little blotches of Red to remind us we’re still in a two-party system regardless of the pallette. So, brace yourselves for the new “affordability.”
Victor Davis Hanson explained Trump’s real economic numbers seeing the Blue media’s promise that a Blue wave will make everything more affordable. The day after the election Hanson compared where we are today with 2022. “The economy was in worse shape in 2022 in that midterm than it is now. Let me explain. GDP was lower. The inflation rate was three times higher at 9.1 than 3.3 as it is now.”
He continued, “Per family income was $14,000 less than it is now. The price of gas reached $5 in July, and it got down to about $4.03, not much different than it is now. The stock market was 20,000 points lower in 2022.”
Why doesn’t anyone compare Biden’s economic mess with Trump’s improvements so far. Hanson wrote, “Why? Well, one was the media kept downplaying the economic woes of Biden, and they kept exaggerating those of Trump. I mean, after all, we had 3.4 GDP just announced today. Manufacturing activity was at an all-time high. The median family income is at an all-time high, $87,000. The poverty rate is at an all-time low.”
All the “doom and misery” about unaffordability doesn’t seem as bad as the Blue people made it out to be. How can Trump fight the congressional Medusa? He’s still the president, and he can still direct foreign policies with his own “pen and phone” and issue executive orders.
On the minus side Trump won’t be able to nominate judges or Cabinet members after January 3. He still has 44 Republicans in the Senate and maybe more after counting votes in Alaska and Mississippi. That protects his vetoes if the Blue folks want to continue to play politics.
The Blue representatives and senators have already come out threatening daily investigations and subpoenas. Oh, they want nothing less than as many impeachments as possible as soon as possible. Who knows how many colors Congress will have on its pallette after this term?
Daniel L. Gardner is a columnist who lives in Starkville, MS. You may contact him at PJandMe2@gmail.com.
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