The author questions whether supporters of Donald Trump are satisfied with the results of his presidency.

The column lists numerous perceived failures in domestic and foreign policy, the economy and presidential appointments.

A recent Fox News poll is cited, indicating a record-low approval rating for the president.

The author urges voters to consider these points in the upcoming midterm elections.

I first asked that question on Jan. 6, 2021, after a menacing crowd carrying flags and signs proclaiming their allegiance to President Donald Trump and his false claims of a stolen presidential election ransacked the U.S. Capitol. Of course, most Trump supporters — the throngs that made up what came to be known as “MAGA” — were not involved in that event. But your lack of outrage then was startling and shameful. It still is. America had become the equivalent of a banana republic. And yet, Trump Nation hid its eyes, closed its ears. 

A year later, in January 2022, as hundreds were indicted in the Capitol attack, I asked the are-you-happy question again — then again, in August 2023, when Trump was indicted on charges related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and yet again, in March 2025, when America, after 50 days of Trump’s second term, caught a glimpse of the chaos that has seemed to follow him like a shadow ever since his early days as a real estate developer in New York City and Atlantic City, New Jersey. Trump Nation was not even perturbed just a little.

Now, Trump faces a new midterm test

So now, as the chaos of Trump edges on crazy midway through his second and final term in office, it’s time to ask Trump Nation again: 

In the coming days, America will once again go to the polls — this time for midterm elections in which 33 U.S. Senate seats and all 435 seats in the House of Representatives are on the ballot. Trump is not running. But he can’t avoid his own narcissistic ways. And so, as a tactic that he thinks will preserve his........

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