Are we Hungary in 2026
By Keith Thomas
2026 midterms
THE JOKE’S ON AMERICA
Just for the Nazi Jesus believing crowd—Jesus was undeniably a woke socialist. Pray for yourself about that when you have him justify your Nazi Jesus beliefs.
Our nation’s President is currently a laughingstock to most of the world. They’ve seen the intelligence reports. They KNOW Trump has dementia. So much childish behavior, stupidity and incompetence is seen day in and day out from Trump and MAGA Republican leadership that it’s hard to remember what normal everyday behavior from people let alone the President is like.
Like a lot of people, I have thoughts and concerns about the upcoming 2026 midterm elections.
HARBINGER
What happened in Hungary with Victor Orban and his party getting voted out of office is huge and it matters especially regarding our upcoming midterm elections in America. Resistance against the fascist MAGA Republican regime seems to be coalescing.
· Like in Hungary we’re seeing record breaking protests across the nation even in redder than red states.
· Democrats are improving and winning across the board in regular special elections as we head into the midterms.[1]
· Trump’s popularity is collapsing in polls, and his dementia is observably worse even to the general public.
· People are losing faith in Trump and MAGA because the economy is doing poorly. They aren’t seeing the pie in the sky benefits they were promised. Their lives are NOT getting better. America is after all America first for them.
· Trump started a highly unpopular war with Iran after campaigning for years that is what bad presidents would do.
· MAGA Republicans control all three branches of the government so they are in complete charge of all the disasters they have caused and the current state of affairs. Are we great yet?
· The Epstein/Trump files continue to hang around Trump’s neck like an albatross as they should.
Péter Magyar, the man that replaced Hungary’s Orban had plans about what to do when he took office and immediately began implementing them. Same for Mamdani when he assumed the office of Mayor of NYC.
If they are successful at winning back the House and Senate, Democrats will have to go 2 years before the Presidential election free-for-all.
There’s plenty of cause for optimism.
THREAT RICH ENVIRONMENT
This next part deals with the cons. They are challenging but not daunting.
· Dictatorial Powers: Trump’s Supremes and MAGA congress have given the President just this side of absolute power. Trump and his administration simply ignore the law. If that fails, Trump simply pardons anyone that he likes of a federal conviction and has promised to grant pardons to any others in his administration for any all actions that they have committed. Trump has even stated that he will use armed agents at polling stations.
· Suppressing mail-in voting: This is a big one. Nationwide, Democrats vote heavily by mail.[2] Dear Leader Trump, who votes by mail, nevertheless hates mail-in voting and wants to do away with it as well as voting machines.[3] The problem is that Republicans are starting to like voting by mail.[4]
· Snail mail: It’s called snail mail for a reason. Mail in voting depends on the United States Postal Service doing its job in a timely fashion. Trump has issued an executive order to prevent the “wrong people” from voting by mail.
Republicans have worked on crashing the mail system for DECADES. It’s not working like they want it to not work. Republicans try to throw out any ballots received late because of the United States Postal Service.
(I mailed our house payment to a bank in a city a 25-minute drive from where we live. The check took 2 weeks to get there. This isn’t the first time that has happened. This has been going on for years.)
· Gerrymandering: MAGA Republicans in control of state legislatures started gerrymandering to eliminate Democrat positions and create Republican ones. States with Democrats in charge started responding in kind. So, it’s hard to tell if gerrymandering is going to work like they thought it would. It’s entirely possible all the efforts will cancel each other out.
· The SAVE Act: MAGA Republicans are trying to pass The SAVE Act to save them from democracy. They’re fixing a problem that doesn’t exist. Their real intent is to disenfranchise women voters, the majority of who vote Democratic. They don’t mind disenfranchising Republican women because statistically they know that they will still come out ahead.
· Purging voters: Prior to the 2024 elections Florida purged voter rolls, with Democrats being purged at twice the rate of Republicans.[5] Think that’s an accident? The state of Texas purging over one million voters prior to the election is another example of the ongoing Republican agenda.[6]
· Voter Suppression: What it all boils down to is suppressing the votes of people that don’t vote the right way.[7] In 2013 the Racist Robert’s court Supremes gutted The Voting Rights Act of 1965 in a 5/4 decision.[8] [9] Twenty-five states subsequently passed laws making voting more difficult.[10]
· Complacency: Voter turnout for the 2024 election was 63.7%.[11] (The April 2025 Census Bureau report has slightly different numbers.[12]) That means roughly 85.9 million didn’t vote that could have.[13] ‘Did not vote’ would have beaten Trump or Harris. A staggering 30 to 50 million people or so that are eligible to register to vote don’t.[14] (The numbers vary that much.)
Trump promised instant results and has not even come close to delivering on his promises. He still hasn’t delivered. We are not great yet.
As a society we have been conditioned to expect instant results even though change can and often does take years. As a case in point the real damage from what’s happening in the Mideast is going to take months more to hit.
It takes weeks for oil in tankers to reach their final destinations.[15] An oil tanker travels at 12 to 15 mph. An oil tanker coming from Iran takes anywhere from 20 to 45 days to reach the United States. (Honestly, I thought it took longer than that. I was thinking it took months.)
What this means is that the economy is not likely to turn around before the midterms. People want food and gas to cost less tomorrow.
American voters can be a fickle crowd and the profascists in our population remain. Profascists. In. Our. Population.
Hard to believe.
Yet here we are.
POISON PEN ENVIRONMENT
Years ago, and by years, I mean decades, I was campaigning in the voter Ward that we lived in for a candidate in a small-town election in Kansas.
I knocked on a lot of doors and talked with hundreds of people. Things looked quite good for the candidate we were supporting. While local elections are often portrayed as being nonpartisan, they really aren’t. I used the voter registration rolls so I knew party affiliation, how often people voted and when, especially if they voted in local elections. A lot of people don’t.
A couple of days before the election the opposition candidate came out with a “poison pen” campaign hit piece from anonymous “Concerned Citizens.” The Concerned Citizens was actually the opposition candidate. They paid people that didn’t live in the city to distribute their flyers so it wouldn’t be tied to them. The entire piece was nothing but lies, innuendo, and fabrication. It was nasty.
Long story short, the opposition candidate won.
That was a surprise to me. So, I did some canvassing of the Ward afterwards. A surprising number of supporters had flipped or decided not to vote at all. Not a huge number. But enough. Way too many people are way too gullible.
People will say that negative campaigning turns people off and that people don’t respond.
Yes, oh yes, they do.
[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-trend-that-can-t-be-ignored-dems-have-made-up-ground-in-nearly-every-election-since-trump-took-office/ar-AA21diCf?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=14b5485d49584324cad60a719734740a&ei=49
[2] https://elections-blog.mit.edu/articles/how-policy-influenced-partisan-divide-over-voting-mail
[3] https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115049485680941254
[4] https://www.governing.com/politics/abolish-voting-by-mail-it-would-hurt-republicans
[5] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/floridas-use-unreliable-tool-could-wrongly-remove-numerous-voters-rolls
[6] https://blog.ucs.org/liza-gordon-rogers/texas-mass-voter-purge-highlights-a-national-strategy-of-suppression/
[7] https://nlihc.org/resource/history-voter-suppression
[8] https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/block-the-vote-voter-suppression-in-2020
[9] https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/570/529/
[10] https://www.brennancenter.org/topics/voting-elections/voter-suppression
[11] https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2024:_Analysis_of_voter_turnout_in_the_2024_general_election
[12] https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2025/2024-presidential-election-voting-registration-tables.html
[13] https://www.environmentalvoter.org/updates/2024-was-landslidefor-did-not-vote
[14] https://www.eac.gov/news/2025/06/30/us-election-assistance-commission-releases-2024-election-administration-and-voting
