Stay Home, Elect Socialists

Republican voters who sit this cycle out will hand power to a party that has been seized by its most radical elements. 

Joseph Ford Cotto | September 9, 2026

The November midterms will determine whether the country keeps advancing under President Donald J. Trump. The alternative is Democrats dragging her backward into the abyss of malicious weakness and willful disorder.

Republican voters who sit this cycle out will hand power to a party that has been seized by its most radical elements. Those elements make no secret of their contempt for the country that virtually all Trump voters still love.

Democrats, from city halls to Capitol Hill, now answer to young activists who call themselves “democratic socialists.” Their warped worldview treats the majority-white West as a thief that stole its wealth from the nonwhite developing world. Their intent is to drain America of her capital so others, especially from Muslim countries, can exact revenge.

That is not hidden. It is the operating theory of the insurgent left that now holds the blue party hostage.

If Democrats take the U.S. House, the Senate, or both, they will spend the next two years doing everything within reach to derail the Trump administration. They will also try to wreck every Republican presidential bid in 2028. Pretending anything to the contrary is an especially pathetic form of self-deception. The stakes are that high.

Consider the blue record.

Just days ago, 192 House Democrats voted against a resolution denouncing socialism and the platform of the Democratic Socialists of America. Months earlier, nearly 100 House Democrats had already refused to condemn socialism. Their votes confirm what Trump has said: the radical left wants open borders, abolished police, shuttered prisons, taxpayer benefits for illegal aliens, voting by non-citizens, and policies that favor criminals over citizens.

Every Democrat in Congress voted against the largest tax cut in American history. They opposed ending taxes on tips, overtime, and Social Security. They opposed Trump investment accounts for children and an expanded child-care credit meant........

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