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.
GOP President violates laws, attacks our allies, openly takes bribes, and is barely functional.
Voters say ‘We must be rid of him.’
Dem President steers a steady, if unspectacular, center Left policy that slightly improves voters’ lives.
Voters say ‘He’s weak! We must be rid of him!’
The DNC never seems to undo the damage the GOP does, while continuing some choice parts of their horrors.
It feels like they work as the arresting mechanism on a ratchet and the only way the country is allowed to move is towards fascism.
I’d be eager to see some candidate come into office and use these same techniques the GOP does to actually fix shit and improve people’s lives in a meaningful way. The GOP are going to say that they’re a radical leftist authoritarian regardless of their actions, might as well be one
The DNC never seems to undo the damage the GOP does, while continuing some choice parts of their horrors.
100% this! I’ve been on my worthless DINO rep about what the plans are to FIX what has been done, not just STOP anything else from happening - crickets. So I also let her know I’m done with this “vote blue no matter who” shit and the only vote I’d be casting for her seat is if she loses to a primary opponent.
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This is largely because people like Biden are still in this old school camp of gentlemen’s agreements where you don’t undo what the previous person did because that would be going against voter will or something. It really only works if both parties are trying to move the country forward.
Try looking at some recent history.
Obama came in with both Houses, and barely got the Affordable Care Act passed.
If you want a strong Dem majority you have to fight harder.
The GOP will block anything it can.
Adding on to that:
Obama had only the house for the first two years. The Senate has the filibuster rule which means control takes 60 seats.
On January 20th, 2009, 57 Senate seats were held by Democrats with two Independents (Bernie Sanders and Joe Lieberman) caucusing with the Democrats for 59 kinda’ Democrat-ish votes in the Senate. Two more needed for “both houses”.
Also, that included Ted Kennedy and Al Franken. Kennedy had a seizure basically at the start and never returned to vote. Al Franken wasn’t seated until July 7th, 2009 because of repeated recounts.
So really 57 Senate seats. Three or four more for him to have both houses.
Kennedy was replaced by Paul Kirk in September and three other people swapped parties. So Obama had full control of the House and Senate from September 24, 2009 through February 4, 2010.
Four months.
If you’re looking at that and thinking, “isn’t that when they wrote and passed the ACA?” then you’ve got a good eye and a better memory.
Good thing Biden gave away the public option before negotiations even began, otherwise us Americans wouldn’t be paying 3-4x plus in medical expenses thanks to this broken and corrupt insurance industry.
Surely part of Biden’s incredible popularity was his promise to add public option, instead of the far more sensible M4A, on day one of his term. After he was elected though, he must have forgor…
The DNC never seems to undo the damage the GOP does,
It takes a lot more time, effort and money to repair something than it does to break it.
I remember Biden trying multiple times to reduce student debt, only to be thwarted by the Republicans.
The wheels of justice were grinding along at their normal slow pace to convict Trump of some of his provable crimes, all the while being interfered with by Republicans and their nominees.
It takes time to do things the right way. Especially when troublemakers are constantly shoving sticks into the spokes.
It was moving forward, just much more slowly than people wanted
I’ve heard this tired excuse since I can remember understanding any element of politics.
Simply, a system is what it does.
If “the right way” can only seem to continue to concentrate wealth upwards, conduct horrors in the name of peace across the globe and continue to squash the rights and lives of the hard working people that make the gears of society turn, well, then it doesn’t seem like it’s “the right way” for a vast majority of people.
Dems are not left of center, get a grip.
The cowards could probably still save themselves if they did the right thing and removed him, but they won’t so they are complicit
People who vote for the Democratic party can get disfranchised easily, but the Republicans don’t.
They will reliably vote Republican even if their party slits their throats, takes a piss on them, and kills their women.
This is the current conundrum.
MAGA specifically is a cult, they don’t follow any logic
Republicans have always been a cult. Look at how they’ve always deified Reagan
Which is ridiculous considering Reagan had no fucking clue what he was doing. He was a puppet President who had such severe Alzheimer’s by the end all he could do is sit around and eat jelly beans while his wife and administration ran the show.
“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”
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.
Unpopular seems to me to be quite an understatement. I can only report back from Germany: here, he is deeply despised by most people.
Since he will never actually be punished, I just hope he lives long enough with his wits about him to see himself reviled and stripped of any respect and power. I don’t have a lot of room for hatred in my heart, but there is no awful thing that could possibly happen to him that I wouldn’t celebrate. I hope he experiences pure agony before the end.
And there are people who’ve done far worse to me personally I don’t feel that way about.
Don’t forget the Millers and Vances and all the eager fascists working to create Trump’s agenda. Plus the Heritage Foundation and the Project 2025 people and all the evangelicals. Only a fraction of what’s happening comes from the pedophile rapist crook with dementia who stands at the front. Any justice has to include all the other agents of fascism too.
I have some hope that they will face justice. Trump never will. He just won’t. Miller should be facing the rest of his life in prison. But he’ll probably make sure Trump pardons him on the way out. Miller is probably a much worse human being than Trump. I would support giving him over to The Hague. Trump can’t pardon that.
In my head I have a special guillotine, with a blade like child safety scissors, that takes no less than 2 to 3 descents to do the job for those fascist cowards. There is no punishment harsh enough for those that have ushered in this shit-show of events.
Any chance you can return the “depose the fascist” favor? You do kinda owe us one.
Unfortunately, in Germany we are also facing major problems with the resurgence of fascism. Here, it takes the form of the AfD these days, a right-wing extremist party that basically stands for the same inhumane ideology as MAGA: hatred, greed and blatant stupidity.
I attribute the popularity of these damn fascists primarily to the fact that Europe uses the same US social media platforms, which are controlled by the same billionaires. Another reason may be that Europe is also experiencing an economic downturn, and the AfD, like MAGA, promises a return to “the golden days,” which is of course a blatant lie, especially since the AfD is a neoliberal party that, like MAGA, exclusively pursues policies that benefit the super-rich - yet somehow people here don’t seem to see through this either.
So I’m afraid we can’t help out, especially since the world today is a completely different place, if only because of nuclear weapons. Sorry :(
I’m afraid I phrased that incorrectly: In Germany, the US president is despised by the vast majority of rational-minded people, but unfortunately there are also many completely brainless, hateful people here who vote for a party that stands for exactly the same Nazi bullshit.
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
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…
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.
LMAO, a mid-term tsunami. Sure, probably brought by Santa
Even if they won every single election the Dems will do nothing and wonder where their support went.
Because this happens every fucking time.
Can’t wait for nothing to happen again.
“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.
The American people won’t be fooled by polls again, right?
Right?!
There will not be midterms.
