The short answer is that there definitely will be a red wave. How large will the red wave be? My best estimate less than two weeks before the election is that Republicans should pick up at least 36 seats in the House and possibly as many as 54. (On October 31 2016 I predicted a Trump victory on Lee Elci’s Connecticut radio show for what that is worth.)
In the 1966 midterms Republicans picked up 47 seats. So that election could serve as benchmark because there are many similarities between 1966 and 2022.
In 1966 the Vietnam War was raging, Great Society spending was accelerating, inflation was heating up, and the economy experienced a “mini recession.” Sound familiar?
If Democrats get a well deserved thumping in the House and Republicans squeak out a takeover of the Senate, what legislation will they pass to restore the Republic? Don’t hold your breath.
Yes, Biden would still veto any bills that threaten the welfare state and aid to Ukraine will continue to be a bipartisan horror show. Why?
When Eisenhower was elected in 1952, he did not do anything to roll back the Hoover-FDR New Deal. When Nixon was elected in 1968, he did not roll back the New Deal and Great Society. When Reagan was elected in 1980, he did not roll back the New Deal and Great Society social spending and did not fulfill his campaign promise to abolish the Departments of Education and Energy. The Bush presidencies failed as well in rolling back Leviathan and even expanded the welfare-warfare state with two wars in the Middle East and more social spending.
Trump’s surprise victory as an outsider in 2016 could have been a turning point. However, Obamacare was not abolished because warmonger John McCain voted no to overturn another unconstitutional policy. The Covid lockdowns, the massive federal spending and Fed money printing laid the groundwork for the current 40 year high in price inflation.
The Biden’s disastrous policies should give the GOP a huge majority in the House and control of the Senate and pave the way for a Republican to win the presidency in two years.
In 2023, will we be disappointed again with Republicans who claim to be for limited government but do nothing to end the welfare-warfare state, the epitome of big government they decry on cable TV and other venues? More on the future of the GOP in upcoming posts.
That dinky red wave may be followed by a blue tsunami. If the repubs and RINOS get control of the house and senate, they still won't be able to do much of anything because leftist joey will veto everything. The individual states will have to try and reverse democrat leftism.
Thus, things may stay in a state of leftist purification for another 2 years until the 2024 election fiasco arrives. By then, electing repubs in 2022 will be seen as having little effect on things which might lead to a massive blue wave. The voters are that blind, very forgetful and mostly brain dead. As the old voters with a sense of history die off, they are replaced by indoctrinated younger voters.
That ends the country as we now know it, although it is rapidly going downhill as we sit back idly watching the carnage unfold leftist day after leftist day.