As campaigning for the midterm elections ramps up, I’m curious what issues Republican candidates will run on. Because at the moment, their best and only platform appears to be: “Oops.”

The party of President Donald Trump has, in one quick year, left utter chaos in its wake, working hard to protect the wealthy while doing virtually nothing to improve the lives of regular American voters.

GOP lawmakers have shown slavish, often embarrassing fealty to their confused and intemperate leader, overseeing shocking domestic cruelty and violence stemming from overzealous mass deportation raids. U.S. citizens have been shot and killed by federal agents on the streets of major cities. Grocery prices remain painfully high, despite Trump’s promises to lower them on day one of his second term. Gas prices have spiked as Republicans stand idly by, letting the president launch an unprovoked invasion of Iran that has already left more than a dozen U.S. soldiers dead, cost billions of dollars and swiftly pushed the world to the brink of an energy crisis.

What’s the campaign message in all that? Maybe: “You bought it, we broke it.” Perhaps a simple “Sorry, we’ll try to do better” would win over a few humility enthusiasts.

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