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Note: This is the second in a series of observations that will appear periodically as the 2026 midterm election approaches. The first installment may be found <\/em>here<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Many moons ago, while serving in Congress, I heard a senior member of the GOP House leadership offer this assessment of the Democrats\u2019 strategy on a particular issue: \u201cThe Democrats always overplay their hand.\u201d<\/p>\n

Heading into the 2026 midterm elections, however, it seems less a case of the Democrat minority overplaying its hand than of revealing it.<\/p>\n

Everyone is well-versed in the historical fact that a president\u2019s party usually loses seats in a midterm election. As this is President Trump\u2019s second midterm election, early projections suggest it will prove as disastrous for the GOP as the first one was in 2018.<\/p>\n

For months, Democrats have charted a canny political course: Decry the Trump administration on issues ranging from \u201caffordability\u201d to the Iran conflict while doing their level best to dissemble about their own radical policies, muting and masking them to appear \u201cmoderate\u201d until after retaking the House and\/or Senate in what many have confidently forecast as a \u201cblue wave\u201d election.<\/p>\n

Sure, there have been GOP and right-of-center pundits decrying the Democrats\u2019 refusal to present a specific agenda for voters to consider before casting their ballots. But that was standard fare from a majority party that would naturally prefer to run against its opponents\u2019 words rather than its own deeds, which would remain voters\u2019 foremost concern regardless. (Nor can one blame the GOP for trying to maximize any advantage, however small, in hopes of staving off defeat and retaining its majority.)<\/p>\n

In fact, the GOP\u2019s demands that Democrats reveal their agenda were an auspicious omen for the latter. They demonstrated that the Democrats\u2019 midterm strategy was historically sound and well executed. It recalls the scene in Cool Hand Luke<\/em> when Dragline (George Kennedy) teases Luke (Paul Newman) for bluffing his way to victory in a poker game, only for Luke to calmly retort, \u201cYeah, well . . . sometimes nothin\u2019 can be a real cool hand.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet, far from overplaying their hand, this \u201ccool hand\u201d strategy ultimately proved too conservative for the party\u2019s own good\u2014or at least for the Democrat establishment.<\/p>\n

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The problem for Democrats, however, is that their own grassroots demand a specific, radical agenda that sharply distinguishes them from the MAGA\/GOP \u201cfascists.\u201d Enter the Democratic Socialists of America, the \u201cJustice Democrats,\u201d and Bernie Sanders-endorsed progressives. Whichever faction they identify with, it is decidedly not the establishment.<\/p>\n

The party\u2019s socialist insurgents have openly run on the sort of radical socialist and culturally Marxist agenda that would preclude election almost anywhere in America outside deep-blue urban enclaves such as New York City and Denver. They are now running neck and neck with establishment Democrats in Senate primaries, including Michigan, where the Democrat establishment is doing everything it can to stop the nomination of the Bernie Sanders-endorsed candidate. Good luck with that. Within Democrat primaries, these ideological insurgents possess the energy, enthusiasm, and, perhaps most importantly, momentum. This is the Democrat establishment\u2019s nightmare.<\/p>\n

These Democrat socialist insurgents have entered\u2014and won\u2014party primaries from city halls to Congress. But winning a primary is only the first step; the next, and far more consequential one, is winning the general election and, with it, the contested office. As President Trump\u2019s record of endorsing Republicans who won their primaries only to lose in the general election attests, that remains the more difficult race.<\/p>\n

For the \u201ccool hand\u201d Democrat establishment, its strategy of equating silence with moderation has been rent asunder by the living, breathing embodiments of radical socialism now defining the party\u2019s agenda for the midterms and beyond. To paraphrase the Captain (Strother Martin): \u201cWhat we\u2019ve got here is failure to miscommunicate.\u201d<\/p>\n

This revelatory miscommunication is a recipe for Democrats to stray beyond the bounds of sanity and snatch midterm defeat from the jaws of victory.<\/p>\n

If so, as their socialist insurgents loudly and proudly proclaim they are reimagining their party, fundamentally transforming America, and powering it toward victory, the Democrat establishment may be left sputtering and muttering, \u201cI wish you\u2019d stop being so good to me, Captain.\u201d<\/p>\n

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An American Greatness contributor, the Hon. Thaddeus G. McCotter (M.C., Ret.) served Michigan\u2019s 11th Congressional district from 2003 to 2012. He served as Chair of the Republican House Policy Committee and as a member of the Financial Services, Joint Economic, Budget, Small Business, and International Relations Committees. Not a lobbyist, he is also a contributor to Chronicles, a frequent public speaker and moderator for public policy seminars, and a cohost of\u00a0<\/em>The John Batchelor Show, among sundry media appearances.<\/em><\/p>\n

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