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Helping Democrats Win In 2026 Should Disqualify You From Being A ‘Conservative Leader’

Self-styled ‘principled conservatives’ and the dissident influencers who claim to oppose them are working toward the same goal: sinking Trump’s political movement.

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The 2026 midterm elections will come down to President Trump and his supporters versus everyone else who hates America and is willing to lose politically to the left. 

The Democrats obviously hope to use the unpopularity of the Iran War and resulting higher fuel prices to leverage a sweeping victory. Since 2016 we’ve witnessed a decade of disqualifying animus against Trump, the only viable vehicle for conservative national policy accomplishments, openly displayed by prominent figures who claim to be conservative. We are now in yet another election cycle in which those cheering for Republican defeat are not confined to officially Democrat ranks. 

‘Never Trump’ Still Fighting

Retiring Republican Sen. Tom Tillis, R-N.C., long hostile to Trump and personally mentored by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, recently publicly proclaimed his excitement over the prospect of Republicans losing the midterms. Republican Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, decisively lost his primary to Trump-endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Cornyn and former President George W. Bush raised money for Republicans who regularly vote with Democrats, but not Paxton.

Cornyn clashed with Trump frequently over Cornyn’s neoconservative stance on Russia, support for increased migration, and desire to maintain “politics as normal” against the Trump revolution. One of Cornyn’s longtime aides went to work for far-left Democrat candidate James Talarico in the Texas race. To them, it seems “principled conservatism” means enabling Democrats who support transgenderism, critical theory, and drag queens over Paxton, who has used the state’s power to fight transgenderism, fight mass censorship, and more.

These moves are hardly surprising, given Republican establishment senators have been resisting President Trump since he retook the White House. Republican senators such as Tillis, Cornyn, McConnell, R-Ky., John Curtis, R-Utah, and Bill Cassidy, R-La., constantly obstructed President Trump through blocking or slow-walking some of his best nominees, refusing to eliminate the filibuster to pass the SAVE Act, trying to end President Trump’s anti-weaponization fund, and more. 

Allegedly conservative, anti-Trump commentators such as Erick Erickson have attacked Paxton in Texas and........

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