Midterms Offer a Needed Lesson for Republicans

Midterms offer a needed lesson for Republicans

The 2026 midterm elections were a political shellacking for Republicans, costing them control of Congress. Yet they may prove to be the best thing that has happened to the modern Republican Party.

Lessons learned from the 2026 US midterms

There were surprises and nonsurprises in this year’s midterm elections in the US. Democrats were expected to win and they did. All the indicators normally considered in a midterm election pointed in that direction. And when reviewing state-by-state polling in key contests featuring vulnerable Republican senators, Democrats had the edge in all of them — Maine, Ohio, North Carolina and Texas. What was not expected was that Democrats would also bea…

Democrats won the midterms. Republicans may have won something bigger.

Social Security and Medicare will force painful choices for the party in control.

Will Republicans Learn Their Lesson from the ‘Disastrous’ Midterms?

By Ron Paul | November 9, 2026 Politicians break campaign promises with hardly any hesitation and usually they get away with it. Americans have come to put up with broken promises for so long, they hardly even seem to notice. Last week, however, voters noticed. They showed the Republican party just how angry they were […]