The special elections of April 1st have gotten lost in the sound and fury of Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs and the stock market dump, but we need to learn their lessons because we’re going to be dealing with the question of how to win elections with a new Trump coalition long after our 401(k)s have quit nosediving. Remember that November 2026 is everything – if the House of Representatives gets taken by the Democrats, or we lose seats in the Senate such that the Murkowski wing becomes decisive, the Trump administration, and America, are screwed.

The fact is that we are the in-party, and the out-party has some significant advantages in midterm elections. The most obvious is enthusiasm. In this cycle, that’s more important than ever. These people are crazy, insane in their hysterical hatred of Donald Trump. But there’s another factor at play – the elite is under assault by Donald Trump in a way it’s never experienced before. Oh, we’ve had Republicans talk a good game about cutting budgets and changing things in the past, but Trump‘s actually doing it, and his attack on the status quo was always going to draw a backlash. Our failed elite isn’t just going to give up its elite status because Trump has asked politely.

If you’re as old as I am, and I watched “Miami Vice” in its first run, you’ve been hearing about the trade deficit for 40 years. Nobody’s ever done anything about it. Trump intends to, wisely early enough in the election cycle so that the massive disruptions to my and other people’s net worth can settle down long before the voting begins. He’s also unleashed Elon on the NGO/funding scam to starve the activist class of access to our money and, therefore, foil its ability to make our lives miserable. Donald Trump is an existential threat to the ruling class as it currently exists, and you know by how seriously they take him. They’ve tried to bankrupt him. They’ve tried to put him in jail. They’ve tried to kill him. You can be sure that every one of them and their minions is going to come out to vote against Trump and anybody associated with him. Oh, and their coterie of pet billionaires is going to devote as much money as they need to get it done. They’ve got about a dozen of them, and we’ve only got one.

So, the problem is motivating the new........

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