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The False Hope of the 2026 Midterms

Post-Electoral Redemption will be excruciatingly difficult.

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Steward Beckham
Apr 20, 2026
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I’ve been a little sour on the pundit optimism around the 2026 midterms. Maybe it’s because we’ve been through this rodeo before, the Democratic House being pushed to impeach the president the last time they won a midterm in the Trump era, watching that constitutional mechanism rendered useless by the partisanship o…

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