HALIFAX—All good things, it is said, come to an end.

Hopefully, all bad things do, too. 

After 10 years of United States President Donald Trump, the recent midterm elections south of the border delivered a universal rebuke of his actions and a mega-mega-meltdown. 

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The GOP was crushed across the board—losing at least seven Senate seats, 30 in the House of Representatives, and 12 state legislative bodies. 

A normal politician might consider a career change in the wake of such a shellacking. But not Trump. 

The first thing he did was declare that he was still president. He went on to say the GOP lost because it couldn’t translate the love the electorate feels for him to Republican candidates. Trump’s self-centred, delusional analysis of the election results? The Republicans lost, he opined, because he wasn’t on the ballot. What nonsense. He was on something grander than a ballot. He was on voters’ minds. 

Now Trump has been evicted from the political easy street. The job suddenly becomes challenging in a way that it never was when the GOP controlled all three branches of government. 

In those days, there was virtually no pushback from Congress on Trump’s feckless governance. The crazy policies kicked in without a peep from the GOP, from going to war in Iran to imposing punishing and illegal tariffs on Canada.

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