Hang The Damned Albatross Around Their Necks
How to win in '26
Ah! well a-day! what evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1798)
Honestly, tales of the Democrat Party and their embrace of whatever the hell it is that they are embracing (does anyone really know?) have been articulated ad nauseum. We all know they are dancing with the Devil and quite possibly are on the precipice of the abyss. There is no recovery from insanity for the Democrat Party in 2026.
But Canada tells us to hold on, wait a minute; Donald Trump is a double edge sword and what he gives, he can take away. What’s really sad is that their conservatives were up twenty-five points six months ago. The Trudeau government had crushed an uprising from Canadian truckers and that began his downfall. Canadians were really getting pissed. Socialist polices were really putting the hurt on Canadians. Enter Donald Trump.
Trump comes rumbling in and demands Canada become our fifty-first state and there would be no tariffs! Otherwise, boom! Tariffs for everyone! It may have been tongue-in-cheek or a bargaining ploy but somehow, Canadians found a patriotic twinge somewhere in their mannered approach to life and threw a lifeline to the World Economic Forum and the socialists of Ottawa.
Canada has dug their own grave and so maybe that will be a gift for America going forward; maybe Americans will see what happens when the socialists are given another chance. Do any of us really want to entertain Canada as a fifty-first state? God help us if that were to come to pass; imagine two Californias in our Union. If Trump makes errors—and he does—this was probably the biggest thus far.
Trump won in a quasi-landslide. Both of the Bushes won the electoral and popular votes but by much larger margins than Trump’s 2024 victory. The Republicans retained the House—just barely—and gained the Senate. 2028 will be a clean slate of candidates for both parties and the results will be governed, in large part, by what Trump accomplishes in the next four years. 2026, however, will decide if the Trump agenda continues.
Donald Trump will never be a candidate for President again. He cannot affect the mid-term elections other than through his deeds and his popularity. He won by stealing the Democrat’s neglected base in 2024 and belief that enough of that base would return to the Democrats to affect the outcome is shaky but… O Canada!
First and foremost, Republicans must embrace the new Trump voters. More people, since possibly Reconstruction, identify as Republicans; more so than Democrats, whose popularity has now reached new lows.
These new voters want freedom of speech, religion, assembly, bear arms, and all of the other critical elements to guarantee a future for the Republic and the people.
They also want good paying and plentiful jobs; they want to have ownership in the American Dream; they want to have a family and assure that their children will have a better future than they did; they also want the government to protect them and deliver a quality of life that has been lacking for the last four years; they want a cure to the wage stagnation that began with globalization and the inclusion of China as a Most-Favored-Nation trade status.
That giant sucking sound, as Ross Perot warned, is emanating from China. U.S. jobs were sucked out to substandard and slave-state manufacturing. Outsourcing, in conjunction with the drunken spending of our government, truly has our country on the precipice of our own abyss.
The best way to win, of course, is to do a good job. It’s questionable that Congress can rise to the occasion. There are too many Democrats, too much propaganda still being pushed by corporate media, and too much turmoil coming from both sides; but primarily from Democrats and their incoherent and mentally ill supporters; not their traditional voters but the ones who celebrate murder, such as the cowardly assassination of the insurance executive and the stabbing death of a young track star whose family has been repeatedly “swatted” by supporters of the killer.
The only way to assure winning is to make Democrat candidates defend being a Democrat. The old adage, when your opponent is making unforced errors, get out of their way is wise but so is kick ‘em while they’re down.
The Democrats are doing the former and Republicans should be doing the latter. The time for niceties is over; the Democrats represent evil and so the Republicans better embrace being righteous. Candidates from Dog Catcher (was there really ever a locality that elected dog catchers?) to U.S. Senator has to pound their Democrat opponent with what the Democrats espouse. And not just the social issues.
Appeal has to be made to the new Trump voter: What effort has been made to protect the people’s natural rights as spelled out in the Constitution? What has a Democrat done in the last fifteen years or so to grow the economy? What effort has been made to lessen the burden on middle America? Why is it that under Democrat administrations and congresses, the prevailing sentiment has been that the old America is gone, that globalization has become permanent, and coal miners and autoworkers are best learning how to code? Why has drug abuse, addiction, and homelessness skyrocketed to epidemic proportions under their rule? Why can’t college graduates find jobs? Why has any type of labor that demands working with hands and expertise been discouraged and demeaned?
Then there are the more obvious questions: Why the crocodile tears over violent gang bangers from Central America? Why did Democrats sit on their hands (during the joint session of Congress speech) when presented with Americans, of all races and creeds, who overcame disadvantages? Why do they encourage biological males to compete in women’s sports and other competitions? Why do they favor skin color and sexual orientation over merit? Why can’t they carry a tune during their obnoxious cosplaying of civil rights protests?
Republicans must define their opposition as a party of escapees from a lunatic asylum; anyone who runs as a Democrat is insane. Don’t run against a candidate, make the candidate defend the party they represent.
And hang that damned albatross around their scrawny little necks.