No Five Grand So What Do We Get Instead

If Republicans had been successful in holding the House and Senate, they would have defied a historical trend. Only a handful of times has a sitting President retained the advantage of a Congressional majority at the midterms, with the last being George Bush in 2002. The country was still united after 9/11, and the voters did not want to upset the country with change. There is no united country in 2026, and the midterms were a huge defeat for Republicans at every level of government. There was also a promise from Donald Trump that if we kept the Right in power, he would cut a check for $5,000 for every American adult. He can cancel the check order. There will be no gift from the President this Christmas.

So what do Americans get for thumbing their nose at Trump, and all of government at that? By voting in the most progressive and radical candidates in our history, they have changed our course for the future. They have taken the first step down the path marked Socialism This Way, and hopefully there is a turnaround before we take any more steps. America retired many incumbents and flipped many states from red or purple to solid blue. They elected radicals, Islamic sympathizers, transgender people, and even disrupted a race in Alaska by voting for a candidate whom nobody can find. It did not matter the quality or even the experience of the candidate; if they had a D after their name, they got the vote. Even Kansas, which had been Red for over 100 years, is now sporting blue. The entire New England region lost its only Republican official when a nasty and corrupt challenger beat Senator Susan Collins. Only Florida, which many say is the best-governed and most desirable state in the country, barely survived the Blue Wave. So what do the voters get for their decision?

Well, the first thing they get is a stalemate, an old-fashioned Mexican standoff, as President Trump has donned his new red VETO hat and filled the ink in the Veto stamp, so nothing the new Democratic House and Senate can pass and send to the Oval Office will ever get signed into law. Some, including Wall Street, enjoy a split government where little new is passed, and little new is spent. A split government grinds things to a halt, and Wall Street celebrated on Wednesday with a 1,500-point gain. They took it back on Thursday when they realized the new Congress was not a fan of AI or Data Centers and was ready to concede the technology race to China.

We can also kiss goodbye any chance of Trump initiatives even reaching the floor. The only thing the new Speaker and Senate Majority Leader will be concerned with is retribution, impeachment, and hearings in every committee you can think of to put Trump staff in the spotlight. Needless to say, we are entering a very ugly phase in Washington, but that is what America voted for. I didn’t mention Jeffries or Schumer in that last section, since there is no guarantee either will be elected. The new progressive members have already chimed in that they want new leadership. So it is not just the Republicans who are disappointed by the midterms. Democrats may be disrupted too and look back on the last six months and wish they had closed the border to the Big Tent.

Author’s Note: Graphics created by Grok AI. Grok’s comments about the images: The image captures the moment after the midterms when the promised five-thousand-dollar check evaporates into the air. A bold red veto stamp dominates the foreground, sealing the stalemate that follows a blue wave of progressive victories. The crossroads shows America stepping onto the path toward socialism, with the Capitol still standing but the legislative papers already marked for rejection. High exposure and bright rim light keep the scene readable and energetic rather than somber, reflecting the raw political collision voters chose. The dissolving check and the held-back wave underscore that the gift is canceled and the real cost is now a grinding, retributive Washington where even Democratic leadership may be unsettled by the radicals they invited in.

Content syndicated from Conservative View from New Hampshire with permission

Agree/Disagree with the author(s)? Let them know in the comments below and be heard by 10’s of thousands of CDN readers each day!