Americans have a very short attention span, especially when it comes to their pocketbooks and political leadership. Some of this is built in.
The Constitution requires an election for the entire House every two years, for president every four years, and Senate elections for six-year terms that are staggered so the entire upper body is never on the ballot at the same time.
While this arrangement guarantees that voters don’t have to wait long to right the ship of state if they think it’s foundering, it gives American foreign policy negotiators a huge disadvantage with their international counterparts, especially totalitarian regimes.
The timeline for President Donald Trump and his administration is quite different from that of the Iranian ayatollahs who still control their country’s government, and apparently, the Strait of Hormuz, plus remaining stocks of uranium.
Mr. Trump and the Republicans are looking at a congressional election less than five months away. The speed at which gasoline prices fall may well determine who controls Capitol Hill. The Tehran regime, like the Chinese communists in Beijing, have no expiration date. They can afford to wait out the Americans.
Against this backdrop, the administration announced a peace deal with Iran that leaves in place the current regime, allows it to start selling oil again and supposedly opens the Strait of Hormuz to tanker traffic. In return, the Iranians have yet again agreed not to work toward acquiring nuclear weapons while implausibly insisting they never had such a program.
Iran has promised to negotiate for another 60 days, all the while rebuilding its supplies of missiles, drones, anti-aircraft devices and other military equipment. They seem confident that Democrats and the media will undermine support for renewed U.S. military action against them when they inevitably cheat.
While this is going on, the Trump administration has warned Israel to stop bombing Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, who have been sending missiles into northern Israel for years. If Canada, Mexico, or Cuba were sending missiles daily into the United States, do you think we’d agree to leave them alone?
Every election, we’re told, will be the most important in our lifetimes. It’s not hyperbole. Think what you will of Republicans, who often inexplicably fumble the ball, such as the Senate’s seeming inability to pass the SAVE America Act to safeguard elections, but the Democrats have morphed into an outright anti-American socialist party.
Democrats are devoted to open borders, sexual anarchy, confiscatory taxes, wealth redistribution, a growing anti-Semitic component, and a steady supply of lunatics like James Talarico, their “six genders” Senate candidate in Texas, and Graham Platner, the Nazi-tattooed, woman-abusing communist in Maine.
Democrats elected Marxist mayors in major cities such as New York andSeattle, and soon in the District of Columbia, along with prosecutors who side with criminals instead of victims.
The party is united by white-hot hatred of Donald Trump.
Unfortunately, the president’s unabashed narcissism fuels it. From putting his name on the Kennedy Center to proclaiming that the America 250 celebration on the national mall will be a “Trump rally,” he feeds the “no kings” nonsense.
While it may be fun for him, it’s hurting the Republicans’ chances of retaining Congress because it rubs many independents the wrong way.
Instead of dismissing concern over high gas prices, Mr. Trump needs to remind Americans that inflation was worse under President Joe Biden, and that a single 10-megaton blast from an Iranian missile in the New York area would kill up to 12 million people. That’s why he bombed Iran in the first place.
The stakes are enormous, which is why the Trump administration has been negotiating with a figurative gun to its head. Hurry up and get gas prices down. If not, you’ll turn the country back over to the party of people who pollsters have revealed to despise America.
On so many levels, the second Trump administration has been a return to sanity and good government. It would be disastrous to see it undone.
The alternative to the Iran deal is to go back to bombing Tehran into the Stone Age, which apparently is far more difficult than what we’ve been told. Maybe they’re getting bad intelligence?
In any case, once again, it seems the very soul of America is on the ballot this November. A Democratic takeover of Congress would produce more impeachments, hamstring the administration, and set the stage for the 2028 presidential election.
A Senate led by now-Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, New York Democrat, would attempt to reverse popular GOP reforms such as stopping illegal immigration, unleashing America’s energy industry, cutting taxes, uncovering massive welfare fraud, and securing religious liberty in the face of LGBTQ-inspired totalitarianism. It would also doom the president’s judicial nominees.
The larger problem is that federal elections matter too much. The government was never supposed to be this big, reaching into everyone’s lives in ways unimagined by the Founders and even by the American people just a few generations ago.
But here we are, and Republicans had better sharpen their message and remind voters about what kind of country they want their kids and grandkids to grow up in.
The Iranians aren’t the only ones who want to fundamentally deconstruct America.
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