Republicans Must Preach The Good News About Trump’s America

 by Allan J. Feifer

We can win the midterms. Democrats want us to believe there is zero possibility of holding the House and maybe even the Senate. The funny thing is, Republicans have more say than they realize in the election outcome.

The Democrats’ strategy is quite simple: confuse issues and provoke us into reacting. They’ve been immensely successful to date, and many on our side currently seem clueless about how to counter this, leading to a defeatist mentality. However, we can counter it, and powerfully, too. The proof was at the recent Munich Security Conference.

When it came to substance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the same things JD Vance said a year ago. However, he did so with a different tone, and received an entirely different reception—tone matters. If we don’t reform our tone to meet today’s challenges, we’ll remain the same party we were when we lost to the non-entity Joe Biden.

The reality we must face is that:

• 55–56% see America as on the wrong track
• 52% of Americans say they are worse off than they were four years ago.
• Only 37% give Trump high approval numbers
• Democrats are plus 5.2% on the generic Congressional Vote
• The Democrats have a standing army we need to counter. (More on this point below.)

Heartache for Republicans, yes, but not inevitability. We can win when we understand the issues, tell a better story, run better candidates, pick our races, and fund them appropriately.

Here’s what we need to do to make that happen:

Force a change in the narrative that will defeat the left’s lock on the media. Most, but not all, conservatives are receiving mixed messaging from our own side. You can only imagine how bad it must be if you regularly get your news from the other side!

To the good,

• A flood of economic good news—cooling inflation, record‑high markets, solid earnings, and continued job growth in key sectors—has created a broadly positive backdrop, even as tech adjusts to the unwinding of its pandemic-era bubble. Recently reported by the WSJ is something glossed over by much of the other media, but it could ultimately be determinative in the most important metric to most people, the economy—“The economy may have stuck the soft landing.” If true, the ramifications to this year’s election could be like adding rocket fuel to the Trump narrative.
• National crime rates are falling during Trump’s tenure, with declines in several major categories according to federal data, a trend his supporters often highlight as evidence of strengthened public safety.
• The Trump administration effectively shut down the escalating Minneapolis ICE‑violence narrative, ending the damaging news cycle while still allowing lower‑visibility enforcement operations to continue in the background.
• Supporters also point to a range of early-term positives—from strong market performance and easing inflation to renewed border enforcement focus and a more assertive foreign‑policy posture—as evidence that Trump’s first year delivered momentum across multiple fronts

All the above metrics can be trumpeted as resounding successes by the Trump administration—and they’d all end abruptly if Trump were to lose the necessary majorities in the House and Senate. This is the key takeaway that should be shouted from the rafters each and every day before this year’s election.

And here’s something exceptional for Republicans going into the midterms: Republicans are blessed this election season with the manna of politics…money. Republicans have inverted the usual financial deficit with a $304 million war chest versus the Dems’ $137 million (some borrowed).

Additionally, word in my circles is that Elon Musk is contemplating spending as much as $300 million this election cycle. The Hill states:

There’s no public number for what Musk is “thinking of” committing beyond the amounts already reported in filings and news reports. The concrete, documented amounts so far this cycle are tens of millions (reported gifts totaling roughly $30M+ by the end of 2025), while his 2024 outlays (~$250–290M) show the upper bound of what he has spent previously.

And that’s just Musk. If, as is rumored, Republicans get similar participation from people such as Kenneth Griffin, Timothy Mellon, Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein, Jeffrey Yass, Paul Singer, and Miriam Adelson, that could finally allow Republicans to find and fund winning candidates in the midterms. Thankfully, neither Mitch McConnell nor Ronna McDaniel is in charge of that kind of thing anymore.

Conservatives’ greatest enemy is our tendency to be overly reactive to the other side, frequently leaving us cowering in the corner or splintering into one direction or the other. You don’t see that same dynamic by the Dems. They stay on message, and their top people have a coherent, often winning plan.

God Bless America!

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