Source: Los Angeles Times
by Jonah Goldberg

“There’s a raging debate within the Democratic Party, mostly beneath the surface, about whether President Trump should be impeached for a third time. It’s relevant because the Democrats are almost guaranteed to win back the House, and therefore the power to impeach. But the debate isn’t over whether Trump has done anything impeachable. That question is settled: Of course he has. Democrats are debating whether it would be politically wise to stir up all the drama only to inevitably fail at securing the two-thirds vote requirement for conviction in the Senate. Spending the next two years on a failed impeachment wouldn’t fulfill their promises to deal with ‘affordability’ and the like. I don’t really care about the politics one way or another. But if Democrats decide to go down that path, Trump’s abuse of the pardon power would be a good place to start.” (10/27/26)

https://archive.is/acgje

Source: The UnPopulist
by Steve Chapman

“Americans have come to expect hateful campaign rhetoric from Republican candidates and their proxies. Comments that once were off-limits to politicians are now standard fare. Donald Trump did more than anyone to normalize such vicious attacks, and his example continues to inspire imitation. The 2026 midterm elections have spawned a hurricane of extremist vitriol. Republicans used to rhapsodize about curbing federal deficits, minimizing government intervention in the economy, and standing for democracy around the world. But those themes are obsolete under Trump. Today, the GOP takes a distinctly different approach: vilifying one marginal and vulnerable group after another in an effort to provoke fear and anger among voters.” (10/27/26)

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/its-open-season-for-racism-and-bigotry

Source: Our Future
by Sulma Arias

“On the eve of elections in the United States, I never thought I’d be in the Alps for the first time. But this is where I am, and where I need to be – meeting with movement leaders from around the world at the Democracy Resilience Forum, a week of honest exchange between leaders from places where our right to vote is under attack. I am one of fifty leaders from five continents invited here by Salzburg Global, an organization born out of the ashes of World War II to help ‘open-minded leaders overcome barriers and open a world of possibilities’. This group helped rebuild Europe, then with the fall of the Berlin Wall, expanded their horizons around the globe.” [editor’s note: Posted merely to show how delusional progressive pundits are about the need for “demoncrazy” – SAT] (10/26/26)

https://ourfuture.org/20261025/will-you-save-democracy

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“The upside to a Democratic victory in the midterm elections is that a Congress that is controlled in one or both chambers by Democrats will likely be able to limit or impede at least some of President Trump’s authoritarian proclivities. Even just hitting Trump with investigations and possibly impeachment proceedings (e.g., for his drug-war assassinations and undeclared war of aggression against Iran) would inevitably distract him so that he would not be able to devote his entire time and efforts to doing bad things to people, including Americans. Coming to mind, of course, are his tariff (i.e., tax) spree and his initiation of deadly and destructive foreign interventions and wars, such as in Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran. It is worth noting, however, that while a Democratic victory might restrain Trump, it would not restore a free and prosperous society to our land.” (10/27/26)

https://www.fff.org/2026/10/27/upsides-and-downsides-to-a-democratic-midterm-victory/

Source: California Post
by staff

“Steve Hilton is right: California’s high-speed rail project belongs in a museum, not on a map — and certainly not on the state’s budget. The ‘bullet train to nowhere’ was supposed to link San Francisco to Los Angeles in under three hours at a cost of $33 billion by 2020. Instead, it will only link a couple of towns in the Central Valley, at a cost of over $200 billion, by 2032 at the earliest. The Republican candidate for governor says he will end the project and ‘turn it into the Government Failures National Monument’. That might actually be a profitable idea. One can imagine something like the statue parks that sprang up in Eastern Europe after the fall of communism.” (10/26/26)

https://nypost.com/2026/10/26/opinion/steve-hilton-has-only-good-idea-for-failed-high-speed-rail/