President Donald Trump looks out into the crowd during a campaign rally at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama, on October 2, 2026. The Republican Party’s massive losses in the 2026 congressional elections have delivered a critical blow to President Trump’s administration, writes Jacob Heilbrunn. (Shutterstock/Dylan Hayes Photo)

Is This the End of Donald Trump and MAGA?

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For the first time in over a decade, President Donald Trump’s stranglehold over US politics looks irretrievably broken.

It turns out that festooning the Oval Office in gold at a moment when gas prices are soaring is not a good idea. It turns out that imposing tariffs at a moment when inflation is ticking up doesn’t go over well. It turns out that pilfering millions in cryptocurrency when American households are struggling to pay their grocery bills isn’t such a nifty move. And it turns out that starting a war in the Middle East when you’ve promised “no more forever wars” isn’t all that popular, either.

President Donald Trump, who has been floating on a personal jet stream of hot air for the last decade and more, came tumbling down last night as American voters decisively repudiated the........

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