There's been a lot of theorycrafting since Trump's return to office this year. One of the more prominent theories is that the 2020 Steal gave Trump time to pause, to gather himself, and to think over the mistakes of his previous term, and now we can see the results: he's picked generally better staff and made better appointments (except maybe for Pam Bondi, and there's little he can do about bad first-term picks like Justice Amy Coney-Barrett), and he's moving as if someone had lit a fire under his ass. He's still being undermined not only by Democrats but by the remaining Republican Old Guard, all of whom are resisting the end of their grift/graft gravy train. I hope Trump paves a wide road for JD Vance in 2028, and I wonder with amusement whom the Dems might pick to run that year. Since the Dems currently seem uninterested in learning from previous mistakes, instead doubling down on their insanely woke ideology and suddenly invoking the Constitution when they'd cared nothing for it while Biden had been drooling in the Oval Office, it's currently looking as if they'll pick a young moron like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, stupidly thinking that AOC will appeal to a wide audience. Don't interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake, as they say. I'd love an AOC pick. Or a Gavin Newsom. Or any else from the current gallery of idiots. You know who'd be really funny? Rosa DeLauro!
The question of whether Trump actually has momentum or is being bogged down by GOPe inertia is important for the midterms: if Congress's composition swings over to Democrat dominance, Trump will definitely be impeached again because the Dems remain desperate to chuck him out of office or, failing that, to prevent him from ever implementing any of the important planks of his agenda. So we'll have to see whether the electorate will turn out to vote during the midterms. Presidents traditionally lose Congress at that time: it happened to Clinton, to Bush, to Obama, to Trump 45, and to Biden the Presidentish. It could happen to Trump 47 as well unless he pulls a miracle out of his ample ass.
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