The Midterm Campaign Will Be 'America Is Awesome vs. America Is Awful'
Kurt Schlichter
After President Donald Trump‘s magnificent State of the Union opus last week, the national component of the 2026 midterm campaign is now underway, and it’s pretty clear how this is going to go. It’s going to be a clash of visions: Trump’s vision of American awesomeness, and the Democrats’ vision of American awfulness. He was positive while they were Agnewian nattering nabobs of negativity. The only way it could have gone worse for the Dems is if their extremely white hope, Abigail Spanberger, started off her robotic response with a land acknowledgement.
Here’s the thing: Trump came out and told us that America is great and that our greatest times lie ahead of us. Then he proceeded to prove it, including shoutouts to hero after hero. And the Democrats hated it. They despised it. The ones that weren’t off cavorting with the weirdo dressed as a giraffe covering Bob Dylan at their alternate State of the Union event – I’d love to have sat in on the Dem brainstorm session where somebody ran “How about a singing furry in a giraffe suit?” up the flagpole and everybody saluted – eagerly wandered into Donald Trump’s trap. “Everybody who loves America, stand up! Everybody who doesn’t like Third World invaders raping and murdering our citizens, stand up! Everybody who loves puppies, stand up!” And they all sat there with their arms crossed, like old school rappers, glaring and bitter, with faces that will launch a thousand Republican attack ads.
In simple terms, Donald Trump’s going to be positive. He went in there, disciplined and focused, a guy who is fun to be around and cool and who showed you cool things and told you about cool things that he was going to do as well as cool things that he had done. And the Democrats? They were a giant pain in the tush, America’s collective bitter ex-wife. America beats the igloo jockey in hockey? Boo! Hard-working families get a tax break on their tips and overtime? Boo! Incredible stud out of central casting who probably could’ve ripped his uniform open to display the giant “S” on his chest gets the Medal of Honor for kicking commie keister? Boo!
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