Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s Midterm Strategy Is Taking Shape

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The more we learn about the Democratic Socialists and the more that the Democratic Party feels they've already taken over the apparatus of the party and they're going to join them, or at least they're not going to oppose them, they're going to be culpable or responsible for what these people say. And they're saying all sorts of stuff.
Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson from the Daily Signal. Let's have a periodic check on the status of the midterms that we're now less than 80 days away from.
The Democrats are riding high. They feel that historical trends, i.e. 39 out of the last 41 midterms, the end party in the White House loses seats, and there's not very many seats the Republican can afford to lose, and they may lose the House and Senate. They're already, I guess you would call it measuring the drapes, but in the sense that they're already explaining how they're going to go after the Trump family, the Trump family associates, cryptocurrency concerns, any hangers-on, people going to the Middle East and investing. They're going to open it wide open. These are the people, of course, who never investigated the Biden family or Hunter Biden. That's no excuse if there's culpability. But nonetheless, you can count on a two-year investigation of Donald Trump and a never-ending impeachment inquiry and the end of the MAGA agenda should he lose the House and the Senate.
Donald Trump is strangely confident. He now has finally hit on a strategy that he feels will work. And earlier, I called it the Anaconda Strategy, the idea that he is squeezing a debilitated Iran. In other words, the kinetic 40 days of bombing have left the nuclear military-industrial complex in shambles. And this time, he's not just blockading. He's not just having an embargo on goods. He is not just freezing the bank accounts of Iranian grandees. He's not just debanking the entire country. He's going to third parties and saying, you and China and Russia and Europe have been trading with this country, even while we were bearing the burden of defanging a potential nuclear renegade nation. And we're going to isolate you. We're not going to do business with you if you do business with Iran. And the Iranians now are crying foul. They're saying we're colonialists. But what I'm getting at, after all that military damage from February 28th for the next 40 days, and after all the blockades, they're not able to withstand a renewed squeezing. And so time is actually on our side. The second part of this strategy is Donald Trump has now put the war on the back burner. He is saying that we don't need to have ground troops. We might not even go in and bomb them again unless they egregiously attack an ally of ours or one of our carriers or ships. We have managed it now. The strait is mostly open. Strait is mostly open. And whatever the status of the nuclear stockpile or enriched uranium of the theocracy, it's pretty clear they can't get at it. Hamas, the Houthis and Hezbollah don't seem to be getting money. They don't seem to have enough rockets to threaten the Gulf states or Israel, at least to get through their missile defenses. And so we're just going to concentrate Trump thinks on the economy. So what he is doing now is he and JD Vance are bombs, bomb storming the country and they're starting to make headway. They're not worried about the polls that show a generic 7% Democratic advantage and betting odds and polls that say they're going to lose the House because they looked at the recent primaries. El-Sayed, the candidate, Abdu El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for the Democratic senatorial seat in Michigan was pulling ahead 10 points and he scarcely won by a point and a half.
Ms. Fong, the Wisconsin Democratic candidate for governor, was pulling ahead 10 or 15 or 20 points. She lost and lost handily.
Mr. Vindman, who was running for senate in Florida, was pulling ahead. He lost to a crazy, wacky Ms. Collins who is a Democratic Socialist. So the point I'm making, excuse me, she lost to Ms. Nixon, a Democratic Socialist. So what I'm getting at, the polls are worthless.