Thursday, February 12, 2026

Democrats' ICE hysteria hides their deepest midterm fears - Victor Davis Hanson

Behind this stale Democrat boilerplate lies a deep fear that the Nietzschean Trump, just as he beat all their lawfare ambushes, will also do the impossible and avoid losing Congress in November.
Their Trump obsessions result in three now well-worn strategies.
  • The first, of course, is still more chaos in America’s streets...
  • Second, Democrats seize on every Trump art-of-the-deal excess or coarse putdown...
  • Third, Democrats still rely on their ossified partnerships with the media, academia and popular culture to mouth the old talking points...
Behind this stale Democrat boilerplate lies a deep fear that the Nietzschean Trump, just as he beat all their lawfare ambushes, will also do the impossible and avoid losing Congress in November.
And they should fear.
No one can now stop 
  • massive deregulation, 
  • new tax cuts and incentives, 
  • recalibrated tariffs, 
  • unprecedented foreign investment, 
  • record energy development and 
  • emerging technologies.
All that’s needed before the midterms is more focus on the 
  • current GDP boom, 
  • lower inflation and 
  • increased purchasing power — all in contrast to Biden’s economic disaster...

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