The ultimate backfire
Is the Democrat plan to rain chaos and obstruction onto Trump to win midterms really working?
Stephen Helgesen | February 3, 2026
After an email exchange with a friend of mine who is my political polar opposite on the subject of (what else) Donald Trump, the thought came to me about how the millions of complaints about this one man might produce the opposite of all the Trump-haters' desired effect during the next three years.
Left-leaning ideologues (Democrats and all the progressives) are betting that by generating an avalanche of criticism of Trump on literally everything he does will give them a big win in the midterm elections in ten short months and the keys to the presidency in 2028.
I wonder, seriously, how short the memory of my political opponents is and if they are playing with a full deck when they are laying down their bets on the effect that incessant unyielding criticism can have in American politics.
They are certainly forgetting how such criticism affected previous elections, especially that of the "comeback kid" Bill Clinton and his problems in his 1992 primary campaign for the presidency and then again with his impeachment in 1998.
In both cases, Clinton bounced back and regained the support of his party. Donald Trump survived several scandals, the largest of which was "Russiagate" in which the Democrats played a significant part by paying for a phony dossier that purported that Russia had been cultivating Trump for years and that the Trump campaign cooperated with Russian officials. It took millions of taxpayer dollars to find the truth.
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