A Silver Lining for GOP: Dem Alternatives Are Horrendous

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Don’t lose heart, Republicans — Dem disasters like Graham Platner will only make things much, much worse
By Miranda Devine
May 24, 2026

Everyone’s angry with Donald Trump.

It’s true that things are getting ragged with just over five months left until the midterms. The president’s agenda is being stymied in the courts and in Congress by bloody-minded Democratic obstructionism, and by a handful of lily-livered naysayers in his own bare-majority party.

His poll numbers are as bad as they’ve ever been, apart from a rough patch in the aftermath of Jan. 6, 2021.

The war with Iran has hit gas prices and exacerbated the cost of living. It may be heading to some sort of deal, but cheerleaders are thin on the ground. His enemies at home are desperate for Trump to fail, even if it means America is dealt a savage blow.

His administration’s botched handling of the so-called “lawfare” slush fund is one of several own goals that his media foes and their Machiavellian whisperers have twisted into fake existential catastrophes to demoralize his supporters.
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None of this is good.

But — and this is a big one — don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Or to paraphrase Joe Biden: Don’t compare Trump to the Almighty. Compare him to the alternative.

Wherever you look in the Democratic Party, the alternative is horrendous.

Exhibit A: Graham Platner, the Dems’ hard-left Senate candidate in Maine ... sporting a Nazi tattoo for 18 years, excusing rape, masturbating in porta-potties ...

But Platner is just one of the Democratic disasters waiting in the wings to ruin this country if Republican voters lose heart.

Take Texas Senate Democratic candidate James Talarico, who believes there are “six genders” and that God is “non-binary.”

Then there’s Texas Democratic congressional candidate Maureen Galindo, the sex therapist who wants to lock up “Zionists” in detention camps.

Or leading Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who campaigns with vile, dog-torturing, Marxist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker and was caught telling staffers to avoid commenting on the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei because Dearborn voters were upset about it.
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“This is a moment when there are no bad ideas,” the former vice president declared on a podcast, before reaching into the old progressive grab bag to pull out stacking the Supreme Court and granting statehood to Puerto Rico and DC.

As in 2020, when Trump unnerved the country with daily COVID press conferences alongside the sly Anthony Fauci, be careful what you wish for.

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