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When we return to work after the Labor Day weekend, the hope is that America will start paying attention to the stark choice offered at the midterm elections in November.<\/p>\n

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There are just two months left until voters decide whether the Trump administration can continue the free enterprise agenda that is sparking an economic boom and keep reversing the woke cultural insanity that ruined so many lives \u2014 or whether the big-government socialists who call themselves Democrats will cripple all that progress and mire the country in another round of debilitating impeachment politics.<\/p>\n

While historical precedent and the pundit class predict a blue wave \u2014 or even a tsunami \u2014 will annihilate the Trump agenda, a cashed-up Donald Trump and his formidable administration officials are planning to put up a fight that Democrats are in no position to match, if reality means anything.<\/p>\n

The battle lines could not be clearer.<\/p>\n

Wrong on issues<\/h2>\n

Democrats last week voted against a resolution in the House condemning socialism, playing beautifully into Newt Gingrich\u2019s framing of the election as a choice between \u201cbig government socialism and weird values, or a Republican Party focused on creating a better future for every American.\u201d<\/p>\n

By contrast, the GOP\u2019s first midterm convention in Dallas this week will attempt to showcase the successes of the first half of the second Trump term that thus far have been muted by successful media nay-saying, clumsy messaging and a president distracted by war.<\/p>\n

We will soon tell from Trump\u2019s two bookend speeches in Dallas whether he is in the mood to stay on message.<\/p>\n

He ought to be motivated by the fact that the midterms will be a referendum on his presidency at a time when his approval ratings are in the toilet.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Democrats are assisting greatly by shooting themselves in the feet with weird policies and even weirder candidates,<\/p>\n

Whether it\u2019s rejecting voter ID, abolishing prisons, defunding police or allowing men to play in women\u2019s sports, they seem to be on the wrong side of popular opinion on just about everything. All they have on their side is Trump derangement and the increasingly implausible ruse that they represent a \u201creturn to normalcy.\u201d<\/p>\n

We heard that about Joe Biden, and his presidency was the opposite of normal. No doubt Dems and their street militias are planning the sort of color revolution chaos that worked so well for them in 2020\u2019s \u201csummer of love.\u201d Then, Biden offered the illusion of relief from the chaos he falsely blamed on Trump. But Americans are unlikely to be fooled twice.<\/p>\n

Islamo-leftists Zohran Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed, the Michigan Senate candidate, and their campaign buddy, the odious dog-torturing Twitch-streamer Hasan Piker, are symbolic of the off-putting anti-American weirdness that has gripped the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

Mamdani and El-Sayed have both been trolling 9\/11 families on the eve of the 25th anniversary this week of al-Qaeda\u2019s terrorist attack, with both politicians having previously downplayed the atrocity as just \u201c3,000 [people] died\u201d and being less sad than the foreign lives lost in the subsequent war on terror.<\/p>\n

Not content with downplaying the attack, Mamdani insists on turning up at the Ground Zero commemorations on Friday even though 9\/11 families and the Port Authority\u2019s retired cops have told him to stay away.<\/p>\n

\u2018Lulu Lenins\u2019<\/h2>\n

And last Friday, he went one step farther, during a signing ceremony of executive orders related to 9\/11 commemorations, when he virtually spat in the faces of the dead. After signing the papers, he handed the honorary pen to Ramzi Kassem, his chief counsel and the lawyer who represented an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist.<\/p>\n

His grotesque flex was even worse because he made a clearly uncomfortable NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch pass the pen to Kassem.<\/p>\n

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You can imagine the snickering and high-fiving in Gracie Mansion: Hasan will love it, bro!<\/p>\n

The Turkish-raised Piker has said America deserved 9\/11 and that he hates this country, and he proudly displays a framed front page featuring the burning Twin Towers in the background of his Twitch live stream \u2014 yet all his Democrat buddies can do is say he\u2019s irrelevant.<\/p>\n

El-Sayed, meantime, chose to spend the weekend before the 25th anniversary at an Islamic convention alongside various 9\/11 conspiracy theorists and anti-Israel obsessives, where he railed against what he claims is a growing anti-Muslim sentiment across the country.<\/p>\n

Great timing. The upside is that this very un-American malice scares normal voters outside the DSA bastion of New York City, where the \u201cLulu Lenins,\u201d as Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) describes Mamdani and his trust-fund comrades, have given Democrats a terrible name.<\/p>\n

The Democratic Party\u2019s frantic efforts to rebrand itself as \u201cnormal\u201d for the midterms are hilariously doomed, considering the reality of its policy priorities. Beyond impeaching Trump, Democrats have no agenda to create prosperity and ensure happiness for Americans.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all about entrenching their power and making life miserable, whether it\u2019s stacking the Supreme Court, creating two new Democrat states, abolishing the Electoral College, \u201cMedicare for all\u201d illegal migrants, abolishing ICE, defunding the police, and on and on.<\/p>\n

By contrast, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent did a great job last week at the G20 presenting the grown-up alternative of economic growth along with facts that show the Trump economic agenda is paying dividends.<\/p>\n

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He pointed to \u201c4.7% wage increases [for the] bottom 25% on the income ladder\u201d that come from Trump\u2019s restructuring of the economy away from government jobs to the private sector. He said \u201cregulatory certainty, tax certainty and energy certainty\u201d have made the US the world\u2019s energy superpower. By 2028, we will have 80% of global computing power, making America the world\u2019s \u201cAI superpower, and we are pulling away,\u201d he told Fox Business\u2019 Larry Kudlow.<\/p>\n

Iran in a chokehold<\/h2>\n

Bessent also painted a picture of Iran\u2019s dire economic situation as he moves to \u201ceconomically asphyxiate\u201d the regime. He has been busy ferreting out assets the regime elites have hidden around the world, and now Europe has agreed to join in. Just last week, two luxury London penthouses linked to Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei were put up for sale, The Sunday Times reported.<\/p>\n

Tehran is reportedly worried it has overplayed its trump card of the Hormuz Strait, as the US blockade of Iranian ships has left the regime with only \u201cabout 30 million barrels of Iranian crude oil left that China hasn\u2019t bought\u201d says Bessent, while our Navy helps friendly tankers get through.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn two years, the Strait of Hormuz will be .\u2009.\u2009. a worthless piece of water,\u201d he told Kudlow, as oil \u201cwill be going on pipelines across land\u201d instead.<\/p>\n

As well, reports last week that China President Xi Jinping publicly snubbed Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian by refusing a formal meeting at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit suggest that Tehran\u2019s partnership with Beijing is fraying under the pressure.<\/p>\n

There is a lot of good news for the Republicans to tell, if only people will listen.<\/p>\n

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