Few Will Lament the End of a Nasty and Disappointing Midterm Campaign

It has been a nasty and disappointing midterm election campaign and whatever the result, few will be unhappy to see the end of it. The irrational and almost sociopathic hatred of President Trump even in civilized, ostensibly Republican circles is less enlightening about Mr. Trump than about the intellectually corrupt and mediocre Republican Party whose headship he seized ten years ago. It is comparatively understandable that the Democrats, now reduced to an incoherent squabbling pantomime horse of anti-American extremists and exhausted hacks and mediocrities: the El-Sayeds and the Schumers pretending to be a viable political alternative, cannot utter a civilized or even a sensible word about Mr. Trump.It is comprehensible that those in both parties who squandered America’s shining moment of unchallenged authority in the world in the post-Reagan years following the disintegration of the Soviet Union are bilious and spiteful. The Clintonians and Obamans to be sure, but also the Bush-McCain-Romney Republicans, all of them were together swindled by Communist China and North Korea and Iran and produced the disasters in Iraq and Afghanistan, the collapse of public education and woke rot and self-hate of most of the universities. Their fanatical dislike of Mr. Trump is not altogether surprising, if only because of terminal envy.What is more disappointing is that the surviving Reaganites are not only rooting for the Democrats. They are so hostile to Mr. Trump, they are serenely overlooking the blight of wokeness, the paroxysmal racism, the bottomless corruption of Minnesota and other places, the ambition to turn the United States into a one-party state where the Democratic bosses and Alinskyites, (feature the egregious dirty trickster Mark Elias and the phony same-name candidacy in Alaska), emasculate the Supreme Court, pack the Senate, and build a permanent majority of destitute illegal migrant Democrats.They are so incapable of recognizing anything useful that Trump has achieved that they want his last election to be an absolute disaster for the Republican Party, a “rout,” in Peggy Noonan’s word. Seven years ago she called Mr. Trump “a tumor metastasizing in the Oval Office” and she thinks the cancer is about to overwhelm the patient at last. It isn’t. It is unlikely that the Republicans will lose the Senate, and not certain that they will lose the House. If all they can do is maintain control of the Senate, it will still be the strongest congressional position in the last two years of any twice-elected president, with the exception of FDR who always won, since U.S. Grant in 1875. Mr. Trump has produced 3.4 percent economic growth and it is rising, has cut taxes and drastically deregulated, closed the border and deported over two million illegal entrants, mortally assaulted DEI, wokeness, and the tyranny of the teachers’ unions and has severely challenged the status of the universities as a giant subversive unemployment-deferral scheme spending stupefying amounts to defame America while producing tens of millions of graduates incapable of earning a living income from what they have studied.The most misguided and dishonest of the anti-Trump mudslinging has been the effort to represent Iran as an unnecessary, failed, and forever war. President Carter was largely responsible for inflicting the ayatollahs on Iran and the world. Seven presidents of both parties effectively ignored the growing Iranian threat to world peace, and President Obama led other major powers in offering Iran membership in the nuclear military club if they would just take ten years getting there. Mr. Obama’s attempts last week again to represent his disgraceful appeasement of Iran as commendable diplomacy reminded us all of how superficial and hollow and racially obsessed a denizen of the White House he was. No one dares mention President Biden for notoriously obvious reasons.Whatever happens on Tuesday, Mr. Trump knows that his historic reputation will be strongly influenced by his resolution of the Iran problem that he inherited after decades of errors by his predecessors. He did the necessary in July 2025 to prevent Iran becoming a nuclear military power and although it has taken a few months to achieve this, he has squared his promise to avoid boots on the ground with his promise to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power and his promise to keep the oil flowing through the Strait of Hormuz. He has achieved all of this at a cost of fewer combat deaths than occur with depressing frequency every couple of weeks in many Democratically governed large American cities.Mr. Trump’s methods are irksome at times and his public personality is an acquired taste, or not, though the bumptious and boastful aspects of it are significantly countered by his piercing of the pomposity and complacency of the bipartisan logrolling and backscratching system that he displaced. He will finish his term and either Vice President Vance or State Secretary Marco Rubio will succeed him, since the Democrats don’t possess any visible plausible candidate for the presidency. The threat to democracy will be the speed with which the national political press can recover credibility. A functioning democracy must have a free press and the free press must continually earn public confidence.Mr. Trump has his shortcomings, but he’s been a very effective president. His enemies in the media, like his partisan opponents who tried to impeach and imprison him and even incite his assassination, will have the daunting task of retrieving the integrity and relevance of the national political press.

Few Will Lament the End of a Nasty and Disappointing Midterm Campaign

Few Will Lament the End of a Nasty and Disappointing Midterm Campaign

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