It's really pretty obvious that the momentum which I believe will carry Democrats to majorities in both houses of Congress in November is built on the unbelievable incompetence and corruption of the Trump administration. We can talk about our issues, things we would like to see done, our politics, and a lot of those running for office are doing this. But the fact of the matter is that the real agenda that has taken over, and in some cases has forced Democratic politicians to get out of their old school politics and regular old way of doing things is that Donald Trump is actually the existential threat to American Constitutional Democracy that has become the cliche phrase of current politics, and Democrats must acknowledge this if they are going to win.

As much as we would like to think otherwise, we are not going to win the midterms with our own agenda. The Republicans are going to lose the midterms because they are complicit with the crimes and unconstitutional corruption of the man they nominated to serve as President. Democrats and our agenda are not nearly so popular as Republicans and Trump are unpopular. And that reality is going to dictate what Democrats must do when we get control of Congress if we want the momentum to continue and if we want to win the Presidential election in 2028.

The Playbook For This Has Already Been Written

It's called, "How Republican Majorities In Congress Rendered the Clinton and Obama Administrations Totally Ineffective."

Remember Contract with America? And if you do, it should sound familiar, because aside from the nastiness of the politics that surrounded it, guess who had a big hand in putting it all together for Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey to introduce into the House? It was the Heritage Foundation. That's right, the same group underwritten by billionaires, promoting the fascist pseudo-Christian nationalism that has embedded itself in Republican party politics of the Trump administration. These people have been enemies of the American republic for a lot longer than most people realize.

Gone was the compromising, the deal making, the give and take that was required for Congress to effectively do its job. In its place, a political wall of resistance, determination through being stubbornly oppositional and uncompromising to cause the other side to be seen as the failure. The commitment to make sure that government did not work while a Democrat was in the White House was the reality of a good part of both the Clinton and Obama administrations, which had to put up with oppositional Republicans for the better part of their terms.

It was so bad, that the Republicans, under Mitch McConnell's leadership, stole--and I use this term correctly here--the opportunity for President Obama to appoint a Supreme Court justice by simply using their majority to delay until he was out of office. The inept and failed court that we have now is the direct result of that theft. The GOP became the "party of NO!" a reputation they deserved as a result of using the power they had when in the majority.

Coming at the Trump administration with something along the lines of Contract with America isn't going to be strong enough. Getting things done without a single Republican vote should be strategized and prioritized, there are clearly ways to do it and it must be done. A lot of the momentum and support for the No Kings days has come from political independents. It is time to leverage that, and shoot it like a cannonball at the GOP. Let's see how they handle it.