Will Russell

This has been the most difficult midterm election to predict with confidence in living memory. The Democrats’ entire strategy rests on the hope of seizing the House so they may return to full-time mudslinging and the empty theatre of impeachment. Their record of prophecy is one long catalogue of failure: Nancy Pelosi’s prediction Trump's tax cuts would be “the greatest disaster in history,” the promised empty shelves and skyrocketing inflation under tariffs, none of it has materialized. Meanwhile the economy is growing at five percent in Q3, investment pours in, the illegal immigration crisis has been stopped, wages are rising, and the universities are being stripped of their ideological excesses. The old Obama-Biden refrain about the inevitable rise of Communist China is now scarcely within memory. On Iran, the Democrats are reduced to claiming a Vietnam-style stalemate and forever war, yet the facts show a campaign conducted bloodlessly and relatively inexpensively, successfully strangling the regime while the Gulf’s oil continues to flow. History is clear: successful strategic action just before an election is a great vote-getter. This is Trump’s last contest. He remains one of the most formidable figures in modern American politics. It would be a serious mistake to underestimate him now.