So the Grand Old Party got their collective poo pushed in last Tuesday night.
Now what happens?
The most important thing to understand is that in the world of American politics, fake and gay as it is, the race for 2028 started as soon as it was apparent the Democrats were taking control of both the House and Senate. Notice this signal from soon to be Speaker of the House Hakeem Jeffries (and try to imagine telling the Founders that a man named Hakeem would be Speaker of the House and next in line for the Presidency after the Vice President)….
Hakeem Jeffries Claims Impeachment And Getting Even With Trump Aren’t Priorities
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) told reporters Wednesday morning after Democrats swept the midterms and won majorities in the House and Senate that no House Democrat has raised the subject of impeaching President Donald Trump with him.
“I haven’t had a single member of the House Democratic Caucus talk to me about impeachment,” Jeffries claimed. “We’ve been relentlessly focused on affordability and on accountability because the House is a separate and co-equal branch of government.”
That won’t make the crazed Democrat foot soldiers happy but it is probably shrewd. There aren’t enough votes in the Senate to remove Trump and he has already been impeached to no effect twice so what is gained from doing it again while he is in office? The frothing at the mouth loons will vote for the Democrats next election anyway but the “moderates” and swing voters who delivered this election to them are unlikely to be impressed by two years of vendettas for no reason. This will only last until after the 2028 “elections”.
My initial thought was two years of mild gridlock followed by a pounding in the 2028 election but Trump is getting ahead of the curve by preemptively surrendering.
He described his own rather tepid immigration enforcement and deportation policies as perhaps too tough. Well that is that.
If you were hoping for the spirit of “Fight, fight, fight!” you are going to be disappointed and at this point if you are still being freshly disappointed in Trump I have to wonder under which rock you have been living. This smacks of the standard “compromise” going back to Reagan. The Democrats get amnesty immediately in return for vague promises of “increased enforcement” at some point in the future that never comes.
That doesn’t mean that pieces won’t be moving the next two years. One big issue is the Supreme Court.
Clarence Thomas is 78 and Samuel Alito is 76. The two most reliably “conservative” justices are at an age when sudden death or disability is statistically likely. With only a very short time between now and the new Congress being sworn in, there isn’t even time now to ram through a nominee to replace one or the other even if you wanted to and Thune is so useless that he wouldn’t have tried even a few months ago.
The Democrat run Senate won’t even entertain hearings on a Trump nominee and after the Merrick Garland thing why would they? Schumer went on record over the weekend: Schumer Vows Not To Let Trump Place ‘Right-Winger’ On Supreme Court. Trump’s only legacy is the tepidly “conservative” Supreme Court and that won’t last for long thanks in part to the refusal of Thomas and Alito to step down when they could be replaced by Trump.
One thing likely coming soon will be pro-active “pardons” by Trump for his family, administration and allies like Elon Musk. Some Democrats are still talking about subpoenas and I expect that without these “pardons” that Trump and his entire family are in the legal crosshairs as soon as he leaves office in 2029. Recall my post On Our Next Episode Of “Hey, Whatever Happened To….” where I pointed out that Trump quietly stopped talking about challenging Biden’s pre-emptive “pardons” and the reason I think he did….
It is certainly peculiar how after a few hurfs and blurfs from Trump that the issue completely disappeared. No one talked about it. It might make a suspicious man ask “why”?
My theory on why is that Trump isn’t challenging it because he is going to do the same thing before his term is up. Democrats have made no secret of their intentions to go after Trump and his family criminally once he is out of office. At first I thought this was just more Orange Man Bad pettiness but now?
The flaw in that plan as I pointed out….
I will be shocked if Trump doesn’t emulate Biden by preemptively pardoning himself, his family and his cronies. The difference? The Left won’t hesitate to challenge his “pardons” and they have plenty of pet judges who will rule against the Bad Orange Man without hesitation. The Supreme Court as presently constituted probably won’t go along but I don’t think the SCOTUS will look as it does now for very much longer.
In foreign policy I would expect a lot of pressure to wind down the Iran war but then a renewed focus on shipping arms to Ukraine in order to prolong the White-on-White slaughter. While the media has been ignoring it in favor of cheerleading drone attacks on Russian refineries, Russia has been pounding Kiev without challenge, hitting power plants and bridges. Simplicius suggested that Putin is going gloves off next year and eliminating all of Ukraine’s infrastructure, quoting the Financial Times:
The Russian president views his air strikes as retaliation for Ukraine’s drone attacks on refineries and commercial warehouses in Russia this summer and blames Kyiv for the collapse of previous ceasefires, according to another person.
“I will destroy all your infrastructure until you agree,” the second person said, relaying Putin’s position. “By next year Ukraine won’t have any infrastructure left. All the bridges, ports, railways, energy infrastructure, power stations . . . will have been destroyed.”
Russia has the means to level Kiev but has not done so, but if the U.S. really ramps “aid” to Ukraine to new highs he might decide that grinding Ukrainian territory is just taking too long. That assumes that Zelensky doesn’t lose control of the angry populace and get strung up, which is my personal hope.
Given that Trump has signaled a willingness to “negotiate” away the store, the Democrats will take full advantage of Trump’s absolute lack of any political instincts to get what they want like a “deal” to get stuff like student loan forgiveness. Both sides will get more “legal” immigrants meaning more Whites losing jobs to low paid foreigners, higher prices on housing and a lower standard of living, and that is all before the 2028 “elections”.
Regardless of how it looks, the next 24 months are just a bonus and a chance to humiliate Trump and his supporters. Overall, the Their plans as of right now are focused on one date: January 20th, 2029 aka Inauguration Day for the next President.
That was the main point of my October 2023 post about Trump being allowed to “win” in 2024 in order to facilitate the kneecapping of the resurgent populism he represented: Setting Up A Scapegoat?
Four years of chaos that they could then blame on Orange Man Bad and all Whites by association would lay the groundwork for Them to do whatever They want. One of my unshakable rules of life is that when faced with the unacceptable, people will happily embrace an alternative no matter how distasteful.
A few things will happen right away, assuming that the Democrats retain and perhaps expand their control of both the House and Senate and capture the Oval Office.
The filibuster will disappear making the Republican minority in the Senate completely impotent (more than they already are of course). Unlike the Republicans, the Democrats have no problem jettisoning rules as soon as they find them inconvenient.
You can expect statehood for D.C. and Puerto Rico to happen quickly, adding four new permanently far left Senators and a few Representatives.
At the same time they will pack the Supreme Court to ensure a rubber stamp for whatever they want to do. That means all those amazing gun rights victories? Gone. Watch for lawsuits to be filed and bills passed at the state level in 2027 and 2028 so they can wind their way through the courts in anticipation of a remade SCOTUS.
What can derail this won’t be VOTING MOAR HARDERER and pandering to mesizos. The electoral map has become incredibly hostile for Republicans with Georgia out of reach, Texas completely unreliable and even safe states like Ohio and South Carolina seeing major setbacks. Democrats won’t have to spend much in their safe states, Republicans will.
The only way this doesn’t happen is if the Democrats can’t hold it together and provide a united front. There are already rumblings from the more radical DSA elements who are chafing at being held back and who want to push faster and sooner than the more “moderate” Democrats, and a “moderate” Democrat in 2026 would be at the very extreme left end of the party not many years ago.
Whatever shakes out in the next two years leading up to January 2029, the wins are going to be few and far between and those will not survive for long. The clock is running down and you better be ready mentally and physically for things to get way worse in the very near future.