GOP lawmakers are growing increasingly concerned over signs the 2026 midterm elections could be a wipeout for Republicans that could cost them control of the House and shave down their Senate majority by two or three seats.
There’s growing anxiety in the Senate and House GOP conferences that Trump’s sinking approval rating will create a headwind in swing states and districts.
But GOP lawmakers say they still have time to improve their party’s image before next November.
I have zero confidence the republican voter base won’t just push the big red button right into full blown authoritarian fascism.
Maybe they won’t. Im just not confident. They’re very easy to manipulate a few weeks out before election time.
Well a caravan of immigrants will magically appear a few weeks before the election again and magically disappear the day after.
“Well I don’t like fascism but ThE LiBrUlZ”
Most will still vote red. Maybe a large chunk just won’t vote and that’s the best we can expect.
I saw a post where a disappointed MAGA called out Trump and then said he wouldn’t vote in the next election.
That’s the way he saw it; vote for the GOP or don’t vote at all.
I mean if you’re a pro-gun, pro-life, capitalist evangelical who wants less immigration - not voting is the best we can hope for.
Fair point.
Actually, the best we can hope for is that they get kidnapped and disappeared by the very nazis they voted for.
Less trash to deal with.
The “big red button” is not in the voting booth
They absolutely will still vote red, but hopefully they’ve pissed off enough independents and nonvoters to persuade them to go vote.
Expect +80% of them to still vote red no matter what.
For all their histrionics about personal freedoms (only for themselves of course), a big chunk of Republicans are just looking for daddy to take care of them. Life is easier when you don’t to make decisions and you have zero responsibility for your own mistakes. In addition, nothing gets Republicans more aroused than taking freedoms away from people they don’t like and making them suffer. Authoritarianism is an excellent way of doing just that. Trump and his ilk are nearly perfect reflections of their sadistic MAGA base.
A significant majority of the GQP base and has already chosen full blown authoritarian fascism.
Politics loves our short term memory. They just need the right timing of some media story or crisis and people forget everything before.