It's Not ALL Donald Trump's Fault

The fallout from the 2026 midterms continues, and the knives are out. Many Republicans are blaming Donald Trump for the bloodbath endured by Team Red. For example, Eugene Volokh recommends this essay by Bill Otis as "worth reading".There is plenty in Otis' essay which I think is just plain silly. The notion that Republicans would have performed better had they committed to a land war in Iran, and that Trump's main failing there was that he didn't have the "statesmanship" to sell such a war to the nation, is, shall we say, dubious. But that meat of Otis' argument, and the part Volokh excerpts, is, I think more line with a common conservative refrain sung over the past few days:In an election where overwhelmingly the preeminent issue was affordability — in other and more candid words, the increasingly obvious decline in the standard of living huge numbers of people are feeling — what has Trump been occupying himself with? Here's a partial list: Building the White House ballroom (from…

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