We Must Win in 2026

 Resistance is Big and Growing 

Donald Trump and his administration are the greatest danger to American democracy that I have seen in my lifetime, but fortunately, he is provoking a lot resistance, and the resistance is growing. Voters on the left are attending the rallies organized by Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez. Thousands of people in a red state like Montana attending their rally in Missoula, where Sanders and Cortez spoke about resisting oligarchy. The Montana Free Press said,

“Taking on oligarchy is enormously difficult,” Sanders told the capacity crowd. “These guys own the economy. We now have more concentration of ownership than we’ve ever had in the history of this country. They own most of the media. They own the United States Congress and the White House. They got enormous amounts of wealth and power. But, you know what we got? We got the people. And the last that I have heard is that 99% is a hell of a lot bigger number than 1%.” 

Resistance is coming from the political right, too. A poll reported by Newsweek showed that nearly 25% of Republicans oppose Trump’s tariff plans. In addition, farmers are among those most endangered by those plans, and the farmers are also among those who would be most hurt by the deportation of undocumented workers. There is also resistance to Trump’s plans to lower taxes on the wealthy. Even Steve Bannon thinks they are a bad idea. Then, there is the resistance in the courts to Trump’s attempts to suppress dissent and eliminate the rule of law. A judge as conservative as Amy Coney Barrett has shown opposition to some of Trump’s actions.

We Must Join Forces to Win in 2026

All of these sources of resistance must come together in the elections of 2026 to wrest control of Congress from the president. The Republicans will probably lose congressional seats because historically, the president’s party usually loses seats in the midterm elections. The Republican majority in Congress is very thin, and the loss of only few seats will cost the party control of Congress. Moreover, the party is already divided over the president’s budgetary policies. Trump’s advisors know all of this, and that is why they are trying so hard to attain their objectives before the elections of 2026.

The Alternatives Are Unthinkable

The importance of taking control of Congress away from Trump in 2026 cannot be overstated. In our political system, the people express their power through elections. Members of the House of Representatives are required to run for office every two years because the founders of our republic believed that such frequent elections would make the representatives responsive to the will of the people. Twenty twenty-six is our chance! Let’s do it!

We must also win in 2026 because the alternative is unthinkable. If the people cannot stop Trump, he will destroy our world and our democracy, or he will be overthrown by a military coup. American military officers swear an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic.” If Pres. Trump fails to execute the laws faithfully or ignores orders of our courts, he will become a domestic enemy of the Constitution, and the officers will be obliged by their oath of office to oppose him. Our military has a long and honorable tradition of abstaining from involvement in domestic politics, and that tradition is one of the bases of the success of our democracy. If the military is forced to break with that tradition, our democracy will exist only as long as the results of our elections are acceptable to our generals. We cannot allow that to happen. We must win in 2026.

We can do it!