No Time to Grieve |
Before Democrats take over, Congress should cancel the recess, do a 60-day sprint, and execute Trump’s playbook through 2028.
Judd Dunning | November 5, 2026
George Washington warned of “the alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge.” He understood what America keeps forgetting: political power changes hands, but a republic survives only when its people refuse to surrender its principles.
Republicans have sixty days. Democrats have taken the House and Senate, flipping at least seven Republican Senate seats. James Talarico won the Texas Senate race; Gina Hinojosa defeated Governor Greg Abbott. We don’t need to process this. We don’t need to grieve it. We simply need to act.
Until January 3, Republicans still hold the House and a 53-seat Senate. Spend those sixty days on what can actually pass: judges, permitting reform, the budget, and the defense bill, while red states lock in what Washington cannot take away. A Republican who goes home for December is voting for a Democrat January.
Our president and our Congress must act NOW. Cancel everything but Thanksgiving and Christmas. Heads down. Lock in what we’ve won. Finish what’s pending. And secure and protect our America with aggression and clarity.
The president’s party lost House seats in eighteen of twenty midterms between 1946 and 2022. Don’t forget: Ronald Reagan lost 26 House seats in 1982, then turned around two years later and won 49 states.
A bombastic deconstructionist outsider sent to confront the bureaucratic state was never going to be Washington’s favorite dinner guest. He was hired to deliver, and he did: the lowest border apprehensions since 1970, record oil production, and murders down 18 percent last year.
Be honest about the clock first. Republicans rarely move fast, and the filibuster still stands. The SAVE America Act passed the House and died in the Senate, where four Republicans joined every........