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Trump alone can’t save the GOP from a midterm disaster

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The one thing that Democrats, their media allies and Donald Trump all seem to agree about with a little less than eight weeks to go until the 2026 midterms?

That the president ought to play a starring role in them.

Trump addressed the crowd assembled for the Republican National Committee’s unconventional convention in Dallas on Wednesday night with photographs of himself — Trump signing autographs, Trump speaking at conventions past, Trump boarding Air Force One, Trump in a cowboy hat — lining the halls of the American Airlines Center.

And why not? The logic behind this peculiar gathering is that if he can turn out his base for the midterms as if he were on the ballot, the widely-anticipated Blue Wave threatening to make a mess of his final two years in the White House might be killed in its cradle.

Trump has a unique ability to turn out otherwise low-propensity voters who would crawl over broken glass to support him.

From behind his office’s seal in Texas, Trump pushed all of his chips behind this theory in a performance reminiscent of his high-energy, always hilarious 2016 campaign.

“When I’m on the ticket, Republicans always do well!” he declared gleefully.

“So I’m asking you to pretend I’m on the ballot — I’m on the........

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