One Thing Stands Between Democrats and a Blue Wave Victory

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inevitable

/in·ev·i·ta·ble/

incapable of being avoided or evaded

1. certain to happen; unavoidable.

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You are going to hear a lot about the word inevitable in this space the next nine months as America tries to shake off this Republican fascist assault while rumbling toward the most important elections in her 250-year history.

1. It is inevitable Democrats will smash Republicans in November’s midterm elections.

2. It is inevitable that the fascist felon, Donald Trump, will do everything with the power anointed him by his crooked Supreme Court to stop those elections and/or change those results.

So let’s begin by focusing on the first inevitability, because if we can effectively communicate the inevitable outcome of this year’s election, the blowback from the orange windbag in the our White House will be nothing more than another one of his hourly, noxious gusts. Only the terrible smell will have any credibility.

As sure as I am typing this, Democrats will take back the House and Senate this year.

We need only lean on past results, not iffy polls, to make our airtight case that a Blue Tsunami is most certainly coming, because its mighty spray has already started blowing across our electoral landscape the past year.

Since miserably failing to answer the call in the crucial November, 2024 elections, the American electorate turned out feverishly in one election after another in 2025, and put Democrats in office everywhere.

It is has been a one-of-a-kind effort, and a thrilling ride.

Here is what I typed two weeks ago about all that:

The truly good and decent people in America poured their hearts out, took to our streets and our ballot boxes, and did what they could to fight past their mental anguish. They crawled over those do-nothings who litter our lives, and exacted many beatings on the regime that means to end us.

Democrats flipped 21 percent of all the GOP-held legislative seats that were on the ballot throughout 2025.

The Republicans, on the other hand, flipped exactly zero Democratically held seats.

Let me type that again: The Republicans flipped ZERO seats.

This rebuttal to pure evil is even stronger than the one we experienced in 2017 in the wake of Trump’s first win, when Democrats flipped 20 percent of all GOP-held legislative seats up for election. The following year’s epic Blue Wave saw Democrats gain 40 seats in Congress, flip seven governorships, and significantly eroded Republicans’ huge advantage in the Senate, all but putting the ghastly Trump in check.

Since that telling, Democrats continued their momentum into 2026 with a staggering victory in Deep-Red Texas this past Saturday when Democrat Taylor Rehmet walloped his Republican opponent Leigh Wambsganss by 14 points in a senate district that Trump won by +17 in 2024.

That is an almost unheard of 31-point swing in a state that has been the Democrats’ great white whale for decades. Try as they might, they have not been able to recapture the gerrymandered, voter-suppressed electorally rich state.

On Saturday, though, they put a helluva scare into Republicans and pumped new life into the hardworking folks on the Left down there who have been telling us we can do this.

Consider that the Democrat, Rehmet, won this State Senate seat in a blowout despite being outspent 5-to-1 by his Republican opponent, who also had the endorsement of one Donald Trump, which is starting to looks a lot like the literal kiss of death to me.

The Republican regime is a bloody mess and even people deep in the heart of Texas aren’t having it.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) heard that bomb go off in Texas, and said this:

“A swing of this magnitude is not something that can be dismissed. Republicans should be clear-eyed about the political environment heading into the midterms.”

DeSantis watched helplessly as the average Democratic shift from Left to Right in the Sunshine State last year was a sturdy 17 percent in their special elections. Miami elected its first female mayor ever, and first Democrat in 28 years.

Dan Pfeiffer, a longtime Barack Obama adviser was also seeing inevitability when he placed this nugget on various social media channels:

“The results from the special election in Texas are even worse for Republicans than they look. Every Republican on the ballot should be scared s***less.”

Let me put it to you this way:

Fact is, if you had a special election ANYWHERE in the United States right now, the Democrat would over-perform, and likely by a significant margin as we saw again in Texas Saturday. Massive victories by Democrats in the midterms are inevitable.

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Before moving onto your concerns, and sprinkling a few caveats into my analysis, I want you to consider something else: While Democrats have been doing all this winning, they have been outspent by the losing Republicans by tens of millions of dollars.

Here in Wisconsin alone, Jeffrey Epstein’s billionaire buddy, Elon Musk, tried to buy votes and burned $25 million in last April’s Supreme Court race, only to watch as his bought-off Republican candidate lost by double-digits in this 50/50 state.

In fact, right now the Democratic National Committee is trailing the Republican National Committee by $100 million in fundraising.

This is an eye-opening number and the strongest indicator yet, that people, not parties, and certainly not these grotesque billionaires, are handling this attack on America.

I say it is about damn time.

The quality of the candidate, not the quantity of cash in their bank accounts will get this done. The American electorate is energized, in our streets, and are doing a heroic job of handling this.

So now some caveats, so I can save time later responding to inevitable pushback that will sound something like this:

-Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched, Earl ...

-Don’t pay attention to the past, concentrate on the future, and vote like you never have before …

-Trump will do everything he can to make sure we don’t vote in November, and if we do will get his fat little hands on our election apparatus to try to change the results.

I concede and endorse the first two points, but want to close out by addressing the third:

Trump will do whatever he can to throw a three-ton monkey wrench into the midterms. He is not even hiding it.

It is inevitable … and we need to make good and damn sure that everybody knows what this lowlife is trying to do, so that when he does it, we can slam his fat, little hand in the cookie jar.

Just Monday, while giving a slobbery, low-energy interview on failing Don Bongino’s idiotic, rightwing bro-cast, Trump said this — one failed public servant to another:

“The Republicans should say, ‘We want to take over. We should take over the voting, the voting in at least many — 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.”

This is hardly the first time Stupid Putin has wandered into these fascist waters. He is seeing the same election results we are, and is panicking.

-Instead of doing a course-correction, and working to lower prices, he is raising them with his moronic tariffs …

-Instead of getting his masked murdering thugs out of our cities, he is doubling down and defending them …

-Instead of defending the United States and aligning with our allies, he is atttacking them …

The old, and quickly diminishing Trump is going full Mussolini, because he has no idea how to govern or build coalitions. He has been a complete, unmitigated failure, and every day more and more Americans see it.

It is our job to continue to get loud, and demand better. It’s our job to do everything we can to make good and damn sure everybody is aware of our successes, and of the Blue Tsunami that is most assuredly coming in November.

Because when Democrats are controlling everything but that rotten White House in nine months, it will have happened because everybody knew good and damn well it was inevitable.

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(D. Earl Stephens is the author of “Toxic Tales: A Caustic Collection of Donald J. Trump’s Very Important Letters” and finished up a 30-year career in journalism as the Managing Editor of Stars and Stripes. You can find all his work and subscribe to his Substack here.)