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No ordinary midterm — this election is a stark choice for America’s future

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There are two ways of looking at the midterm elections, now just a week away.

From one angle, it’s a simple referendum on the issues and politicians of the day.

From another, it involves a far deeper conflict of visions (as Thomas Sowell puts it): socialism vs. capitalism, intrusive vs. limited government, and the destruction of time-honored institutions and traditions vs. their preservation and renewal.

Rarely in American history have the two parties been so far apart — or the choice between them so stark.

In brief, Islamist-sympathizing socialism is on the ballot against free-market capitalism and American exceptionalism.

The new Islamist-allied socialist Democratic Party is confident, largely because the party holding the White House rarely gains House seats in the midterms.

Americans fed up with all the constant campaign texting — and it could backfire on candidates: poll

GOP Mich. Senate hopeful Mike Rogers dodges whether he’s ‘MAGA Republican’

Major transit union launches ad blitz ripping Hochul as so ‘toxic’ that Dem pols are running from her

Pundits point to President Donald Trump’s under-40% approval rating, the persistently high price of gas and public uncertainty over the Iran war.

But the choice goes much further: Voters face a “deep” midterm election that will help determine the nation’s very existence.

The new Democratic agenda is not about lowering gas prices.

Americans are being asked to hand Congress to what has become the most radical major party in US........

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