The Democrat DHS Shutdown Has Hit 30 Days, and It Has Been an Unmitigated Disaster

 

Democrats in Congress have now kept the Department of Homeland Security shuttered for 30 straight days, and in that time we have seen four Islamic terror attacks, countless threats against universities, military installations, and airports, and an unprecedented delay at TSA checkpoints. 

On Monday morning, the security line at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport stretched out the door to what seemed to be the length of the terminal by 4:30 in the morning. Domestic travelers were advised to get to the airport two and a half hours early. By 5:30, the line extended past the sidewalk for the facility.

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Good morning, travelers.

Here is a 4:30 am view of the general security line for Checkpoint 1.

We’re expecting a record-breaking volume of people — there are about 38k of you flying out today. Please arrive at least 2.5 hours prior to your flight’s departure for domestic. pic.twitter.com/4BSomFYRXz— Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (@AustinAirport) March 16, 2026

 

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The line for TSA in Austin, Texas this morning.

Insane. pic.twitter.com/qyGhR6XUey— Eric Spracklen 🇺🇸 (@EricSpracklen) March 13, 2026

The story of lengthy lines isn’t limited to Austin. Across the country, major air travel hubs have been inundated with a swarm of Spring Break travelers. Estimates put the number of travelers at 170 million. TSA reported that many were experiencing over a three hour wait for security. More than 300 of their officers have left the job, and the remainder continue to work without pay. The situation has gotten so out of hand that even CNN has labeled it as an “impending disaster.”

 

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3+ hour TSA lines for travelers.

300+ TSA officers who have quit.

A $0 paycheck for those continuing to serve.

Enough is enough.

No more playing politics with the lives of Americans. The Democrat shutdown of DHS must end now. pic.twitter.com/VsHc71TOA9— TSA (@TSA) March 14, 2026

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Brought to you by Democrats https://t.co/JARe9qNKcY— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 15, 2026

 

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🚨 This is Fort Lauderdale International Airport yesterday.

People are having to show up for their flights ridiculously early due to the Dems DHS shutdown.

pic.twitter.com/Jm0q2KPn1E— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 16, 2026

 

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TSA is bracing for more than 170 million spring break travelers — all while agents are working without pay during the Democrat Shutdown.

“Those winter storms…they are just part of the problem…” pic.twitter.com/devfPGl6RY— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 16, 2026

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The chaos at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport is worse than even Thanksgiving or Christmas travel:

“The tears have been flowing from all sorts of people.” pic.twitter.com/pzT1OMKFgG— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 16, 2026

And a major inconvenience at the airport is the smallest of the problems that have arisen. In a matter of weeks, we have had four Islamic terror attacks thrust upon us. Those attacks haven’t been limited to a singular region of the country, either. In Texas, New York, Virginia, and Michigan, jihadists have taken up arms against students and bar patrons, thrown bombs at anti-Islam protestors, and plowed an explosives-laden vehicle through an early childhood center. Only after these attacks have Democrats felt any sort of pressure to reopen DHS.

How many more Islamic terrorists need to wreak havoc upon our communities before Democrats will say that enough is enough? How many missed flights for someone visiting a sick relative, the birth of a grandchild, or a wedding need to happen before they stop holding the government hostage? How long must the families of government workers go without pay until Democrats understand that their political stunt has real world consequences?

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My dear wife @KyraPhillips gets the human side of the shut down’s effects on @TSA workers who are going without pay to keep us safe… https://t.co/ndm3oCE5Ej— John Roberts (@johnrobertsFox) March 16, 2026

The pretense for the Democrat shutdown is to keep funds out of the hands of immigration authorities, despite the fact that ICE is funded through 2029, so these leftist radicals are taking the “principled stand” of siding with illegal immigrants over their own citizens.

In that case, I guess they are working to the benefit of their voters.

‘It’s a Very Surreal War’

 

We’re in the second week, just completing it, of the so-called Iran war. This effort of the United States to bomb the theocracy into submission, so they will cancel their missile and nuclear programs, and to champion the popular protest on the streets that have some potential to get rid of the regime itself.

But it’s a very surreal war. I haven’t seen—I don’t think any of us have seen—anything like it. It’s only been two weeks, and we’re told that it’s dragging on, that it’s a forever war, that we’re losing, that the Pentagon and the Trump administration had no plans.

And yet, when you look at Iran, this huge country, much, much bigger, much, much more populous than Iraq or Afghanistan, and it has no military left.

The navy is dismantled. The air force is dismantled. The Revolutionary Guard. All of these special contingents are under enormous assault. The command and control is destroyed. The missile defense is destroyed. And yet people say that it’s unconquerable.

It doesn’t make any sense. Its output of missiles and drones at the Gulf petrol states and Israel has dropped by 90%.

So, what’s going on? And I think part of the problem is that there’s no media coverage. There are no embedded reporters there because we are not on the ground. When you don’t have a ground fight in enemy territory, you don’t have American embedded journalists traveling with the troops that can give diverse opinions, accurate accounts.

All we have are the journalists who are allowed into Iran, and that happens to be—guess who—CNN, and they report the party line that comes out of the Iranian theocracy.

Again, an air war is very hard to cover because pilots can’t talk to anybody. They’re at bases that are secluded and secure. They get in the planes, they fly their mission, and they go home, and there’s no way a journalist can really get to them or talk to them.

So, all of our information comes from three sources: the Iranian propaganda machine, which is completely not credible. It’s about as credible as the Hamas body count that we saw two years ago. Or CNN and a few other Western—but very biased—news outlets that only Iran will let in, based on the conditions which they impose on them.

And the only thing you can find out about this war that’s official comes from the Israeli government and some Israeli newspapers—The Times of Israel or The Jerusalem Post. So, there’s a lot of misinformation about the actual damage that we’re inflicting.

And then there’s the attitude toward the war. The attitude in World War II—everybody was behind the United States. We did a lot of things that we regretted—the Japanese internment.

We made a lot of mistakes, strategically. Okinawa, Tarawa were disasters. The B-17 bombing program cost 40,000 [lives], but everybody basically said we don’t have to be perfect to be good. We’re going win our war because our cause is better than the alternative.

That’s gone now. It is gone. Even in the first Gulf War of 1990-91, people were united, but the Democratic Party is not the Democratic Party of Bill Clinton.

It’s a socialist party. That’s a euphemism. It really does not believe in traditional America, and it believes that if it can convey a sense that America is losing, then two things follow it.

For some, it means that the November midterms might give power back to the Democrats, and therefore it’s in their self-interest to magnify the debacle, so to speak, or the tragedy, or that we’re losing.

And then there’s others that actually, in the Democratic Party—and I’m talking about the “squad” or Rep. Ilhan Omar—they actually are sympathizing with the enemy.

If you think I’m crazy, there was a protest out in New York where we had resident aliens, students here on student visas, naturalized citizens, and what were they screaming? Shame on the United States.

Why we’re at war. And who were they protesting on behalf of Iran, the Hezbollah terrorists, and the Hamas terrorists. And so, this is a very bizarre thing. And in addition to that, we’ve got the element of antisemitism where we have the Democratic Party now. Its base is just avowedly antisemitic.

And I’ll just make a casual observation. I will predict that you will not have a Jewish American presidential candidate or vice presidential candidate for the foreseeable future. It is impossible to nominate anybody with a Jewish background on a national ticket in the Democratic Party.

And you can see that as the Democrats look at this war, they have bought hook, line, and sinker the idea that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pulling the strings of the President Donald Trump puppet and tiny Israel is getting us into this war.

Despite the fact that all seven prior presidents, and Trump himself, said on the record that Iran would not get a nuclear weapon on its watch, and that they would take measures to ensure that it didn’t in the future. And none of them did that. None of them did that.

And so, when you look at the first Gulf War, it was 42 days, but only four days were on the ground. It was a magnificent victory, but 300 people were killed. We’ve lost about, what, 14, 13 fatalities. Three hundred—that was considered amazing at the time. And they overran the country, but it took 42 days to disable it, and they left Saddam Hussein in power, and they had to go back.

And so that was considered a stellar success. But this is a much more dramatic victory. We’ve only been here two weeks and a much more formidable enemy is in shambles. And we’re left with just three alternatives.

Either the regime is going be replaced now or in the next few weeks as the people come out of their homes and see what their country is like, and what the theocracy caused, and what it did to them.

Or there’s going be some Venezuelan solution where a strongman will come forward.

Or maybe that won’t happen at all, and the United States, under political pressure, will stop. But if it stops, they have destroyed the Iranian military and its nuclear and missile program for years.

So, this was all preferable to the situation prewar, in which Iran still was working on the bomb, still had 3,000 missiles and more drones, and was boasting that it was going to, anytime it wanted, close the Strait of Hormuz. And they’ve tried it, and they will not be successful.

Put it all together, this is a surreal war. What is actually happening is not being reported.

And there’s an alternate reality that’s been constructed by the Left that sees this war as politically advantageous to its agenda to recapture power in the United States if it can convince us, the American people, that A, we’re losing, B, we may deserve to lose, C, it’s all Donald Trump’s fault, and this war will be beneficial in denying him the Republican majorities in Congress in about eight months.

Newsom’s Rocky Month Shows the Risks of Running on Style Over Substance

 

Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, and the presumptive front-runner in the Democratic presidential primary for 2028—I am biased because I’ve had to live under his tenure for six years—but I think you could make the argument he had the worst February of any major want-to-be candidate in modern memory, or surely the worst record of any governor in the last 30 days.

It wasn’t supposed to be that way. He has a new autobiography, and his problem there is he comes across as what he is: a child of privilege, a nepo baby, a person whose father was a close, intimate friend of Gov. Pat Brown, senior Gov. Pat Brown. He was a good friend and somewhat related to Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and former Gov. Jerry Brown. And of course, he was subsidized and helped in his business venture by the Getty family and their mega-oil fortune inherited from their father, who created Getty Oil. So, he wants to dispel that image.

So, when he talked about how he just ate white bread or he had all of these problems growing up—he said he had dyslexia. We’ll get to that in a minute. But the idea that Gavin Newsom was somehow parallel to former President Abraham Lincoln in a log cabin or Vice President JD Vance just doesn’t work.

Then he went over to Munich, German Democratic Republic, because, you know, he’s a California governor. He doesn’t have any foreign experience, and he thought he was going to impress the Europeans with their shared dislike of President Donald Trump. But it was a disaster.

He said something about you shouldn’t wear knee pads. He’s a vulgarian. He really is. He can’t keep his potty mouth clean. I don’t think anybody at that type of serious discussion of foreign policy wants some upstart California governor to come over and talk about people being on their knee pads. I suppose that’s a reference for a sexual act of submission.

Then he’s had this social media team, and their theory is that Donald Trump—with his capital letters, exclamation points, personal ad hominem attacks—has upped his popularity. And therefore, he’s going to imitate Donald Trump’s style with capital letters, the same format, but he’s going to use a constant level of pejoratives that are obscene, almost pornographic. And then, therefore, he will outtrump Trump. He has a fundamental failing, everybody, and you know that.

You will vote for Donald Trump because of his record and his courage and breaking existing norms and taboos and trying to do things that no one ever did. Like close the border, stop crime, deal with the Left, the Department of Government Efficiency, deal with the Iranians, deal with Venezuela. And the tweets in which he describes that are attacks of Robert De Niro or—that’s something that you will tolerate despite, not because of, those tweets.

Gavin Newsom got it all wrong. He thought, well, Trump is doing well because of his tweets, and I’m gonna be outtrumping Trump. And the result is he’s unleashed this unfortunate character. I think he’s called Izzy Gardon. I don’t know how you pronounce it, but my gosh, they’re full of expletives.

He’s in a tweet war with Sean Hannity. He used the F-word. He used the S-word. They come out of the mouth of the governor of California like they’re nothing. He’s really debased the office. He’s got one of the most foul mouths, Gavin Newsom, and now you’re putting it, if I could use that archaic term, in print, in these social media, daily outbursts.

You know, there was a simple reporter, Susan Crabtree. She has a very good reputation. She works for RealClearPolitics, and getting back to dyslexia, she says, all of a sudden, you’re emphasizing dyslexia. But we would like to know when he was officially diagnosed with this medical condition. And his social media, Gardon, Izzy, said F off to a reporter, which didn’t go down well.

As far as dyslexia goes, it’s very hard to find him credible. Not that he doesn’t have it, but when he says, “I can’t read,” I can’t believe that’s true, because not too long ago, he bragged to us, I think, that he was reading a 260-page book in an hour and a half, as if he was a speed-reader.

And my gosh, anybody who is a governor of a huge state like California, a governor of any state, gets page after page daily in memoranda and policy papers and speeches. So, when he says he can’t read, it wouldn’t convince most people.

And why did he say that he couldn’t read? Because he’s flailing, and he wants to have some sympathy. I think that’s the reason.

The same thing—he wants to be a pseudo-poor boy. When Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said you were historically illiterate, and Newsom again fired from the hip and said that Trump had no historical precedent or right to bring in federal troops, that’s happened five or six times in our history. Civil War draft riots; World War I veterans marching for their bonuses they didn’t receive; Rodney King riots, where then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell sent in, I think, 4,000 or 5,000 Marines on the order of then-President George H.W. Bush.

And so, Ted Cruz said, Gavin, you’re historically illiterate. And sure enough, he says, how dare you make fun of a person with a handicap because I’m—you’re saying that I’m illiterate because I can’t read. Of course, being historically illiterate means you’re able to read, you just don’t read history, or you would’ve not made such a blunder. And he confused that. Again, the subtext was, please feel sorry for me because otherwise I have no redeeming values as a candidate.

And then he made the faux pas of all mistakes. He got before an African American audience. And remember, every time a Democratic white elite gets in front of an African American audience, something happens. They either feel uncomfortable or they want to fake it like they’re somebody they’re not, or they’re condescending, or they—it just doesn’t work well.

Remember former President Joe Biden, when he wanted to attack former Sen. Mitt Romney. He said to a group of highly educated, professional blacks in the audience that Mitt Romney’s “gonna put you all [back] in chains.” He kind of did the accent. “Put you all in”—as if these capable people couldn’t protect themselves without Joe Biden. As if we were gonna go back to slavery.

When we had former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, remember, I tried so—“I didn’t come this far.” She was trying to imitate, I guess, the voice she thought Sojourner Truth or Harriet Tubman would’ve said, somebody like that. It was a disaster. Even former President Barack Obama, who’s half African American, always went into a different patois to condescend to his audience.

And that’s exactly what Gavin Newsom did, only it was worse because it was content, not just style. He was speaking very slowly and changed his cadence. But when he said to them, I am not—I’m just like you. Basically, I am illiterate, and I had a 960, and I’m not saying I had a 960 to make you out there in the audience have 940, that was an insult because he was saying to them: You are not very bright, and therefore, you should feel empathy with me because I’m claiming that I’m not very bright, but I really don’t believe it. And they don’t believe that he really meant that either. So, it was completely racist and insulting.

It’s up there with Joe Biden’s “Corn Pop” sagas, you know. Barack Obama’s the first black who’s clean and can articulate. It’s up there with his use of “boy” and “Negro.” As I said, all of these politicians have a checkered record when it comes to race, which is ironic because they pose as defenders of civil rights.

Finally, what’s the elephant in the room? All of what I talked about is a camouflage, a mask for the problem. And that is 300,000 people are leaving his state per year since he’s been governor. He’s taken paradise and turned it into purgatory. Whether it’s the fires, the high-speed rail boondoggle, the highest income taxes in the nation, the recent billionaires tax—it’s already driven $1 trillion out of the state.

We have the highest number of homeless people. We have one-third of all welfare recipients. We have the highest poverty rate, I think we’re 21% to 22%. We have no plans to assimilate a culture rate or integrate 27% of the population that was foreign-born. We have the highest number of illegal aliens. About one out of every three people that enters our now-bankrupt health system has diabetes. And Louisiana and Mississippi have higher test scores in their elementary schools than we do.

Add it all up, and he’s got only one campaign slogan. Gavin Newsom will have to run as “I want to do to the United States what I did to California.” We’ll see how that works out.

CNN Repeatedly Screws Up on Mamdani and 2 Muslims With Bombs

 On March 7, two teenaged Muslims were arrested for lighting and throwing improvised explosive devices at an anti-Islam protest outside Gracie Mansion, the home of New York’s Democrat Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

This provided the latest exhibit of how our elitist media seek to protect Muslims from the “Islamophobia” of conservatives. It’s fascinating that when the extremism and “phobias” run another direction—of Muslims being viciously antisemitic—it doesn’t outrage these people.

CNN has launched into an embarrassing week of false and insensitive coverage of these college-age jihadis. On Tuesday, CNN’s X account tweeted this narrative: “Two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York City Saturday morning for what could’ve been a normal day enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather. But in less than an hour, their lives would drastically change as the pair would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs during an anti-Muslim protest outside of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s home.”

Within hours, it had taken down the tweet, but it mirrored the lede of its original CNN.com article by reporters Taylor Romine and Gloria Pazmino. It inspired a wave of satires, framing the Lincoln assassination, Pearl Harbor, and other violent events into an idyllic frame.

Then, on Tuesday’s edition of “CNN NewsNight,” host Abby Phillip erroneously stated the bomb-throwers carried out “an attempted terror attack against New York’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani” while heading into a commercial break. She later apologized and blamed it on whoever put these words into her teleprompter.

CNN commentator Ana Navarro repeated this lie just moments later: “Supposedly some of these comments are as a result of the attempt against Mayor Mamdani in New York, who was raised Muslim, was he not?” He was, but he wasn’t targeted by these two Muslims.

On Wednesday, CNN reporter Edward-Isaac Dovere apologized on X after tweeting that Mamdani had messaged Democrat Gov. Josh Shapiro last year, “a fellow target of political violence.”

Then there were overly vague allusions leaving the impression that Mamdani was targeted. Wolf Blitzer announced on “The Situation Room” on Wednesday: “Investigators are digging into the background of the two terror suspects accused of throwing homemade bombs near New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s home.”

But according to a transcript search on Nexis, there’s been nothing on CNN about the vicious social media “likes” of Rama Duwaji, the mayor’s wife, celebrating the Oct. 7, 2023, mass murder in Israel, as reported by The New York Times on March 6. The only mention of her name came from Pazmino about the bomb incident: “I should mention that both Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the First Lady Rama Duwaji were safe. There were no injuries during this protest yesterday.”

After Mamdani’s victory last November, Pazmino did a puff piece celebrating Duwaji as “the first Muslim member of Gen Z to become first lady of New York City.” Behind the scenes, she “advised Mamdani on how to better use social media.” Oh, really?

This week, CNN was posting partisan attacks, like this one from political reporter Aaron Blake: “The GOP’s increasing blind eye to anti-Muslim bigotry.” That’s pretty funny, considering CNN’s blind eye on the celebration of genocide inside Israel. Blake even cited Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, mocking Mayor Mamdani for eating rice with his hands, saying, “Go back to the Third World.”

CNN should find it more outrageous that someone would celebrate the slaughter on Oct. 7 than mockery of the eating habits of a Ugandan American. But that’s not how CNN rolls. Its Islamophilia led it into a cascade of Fake 

A MAGA Split Over Iran? What MAGA Split?

 

There’s a lot of talk about a Make America Great split among Trump supporters, and this originated here in context with the Iranian war. I’m speaking on a Monday, the 10th day of the war. And there’s talk in the air that the MAGA base may desert President Donald Trump because, after all, MAGA’s credo was no optional wars in the Middle East.

That came out of a disgust with the 20-year misadventure in Afghanistan and the skedaddle from Kabul that left billions of dollars of weapons, and, of course, the 8,000-plus dead and more casualties in the Iraq and Afghanistan war. But this is different.

This war is only conducted by air, and there’s certain characteristics of it that we haven’t seen before. It’s a top-down war.

We are targeting the leaders, not the military rank and file. We have been taking out, along with the Israelis, 50, 60, a hundred scientists, generals, mullahs, political leaders to decapitate, not try to organically destroy the entire Iranian military.

Second, they were all part of negotiations. We were negotiating with Iran and gave them a lot of options. Just don’t fund your terrorist proxies. Don’t create a bomb, knock it off. And they didn’t want to do it. It’s just like the prior Iran strike last year, where we gave them another option.

It’s very different. You can’t really change a regime, we’re told, if you don’t have ground troops. But maybe there’s something different about the modern age with the sophisticated satellite imagery and reconnaissance, that you know where individual people are by their GPS footprint, by their cellphone communications.

And then you couple that with these highly sophisticated missiles and drones where you can actually take something through a window and dispatch somebody at a meeting. We’ve never quite seen that before.

So, you don’t really need a sniper to take out a toxic Hitlerian-type of leader.

The other thing is that Donald Trump pretty much knows there’s three alternatives that we’ve talked about before. And none of them really require ground troops.

The most desirable obviously would be to get an interim government, maybe former dissidents, get expatriates back, depose the mullahs so that there are—or people in the army, depose them, and then you have elections. That would be wonderful, with the problem solved.

Or you could find somebody within the apparatus, the theocracy that was a dissident and felt that he had military backing, and he would, you know, pick the Venezuela solution. Sort of what we see in Venezuela. We’re not going to nation-build.

The worst scenario is not all that bad. We say stew in your own juice. You know, we mow the lawn and we can do it anytime we want.

We can come back in and destroy your new navy, your new missiles as long as we have a president, post-Trump, who’s willing to do that and ensure that they don’t become nuclear again, or they don’t build another missile fleet. And that’s reflected, getting back to my original point, in the MAGA so-called dissidents.

If you look at polls, and there were some released by CNN, Donald Trump has 87% support among Republicans. That is much higher than Joe Biden had among Democrats or even Barack Obama had among Democrats. And when you look at the MAGA base, the people who identify themselves as Trump Conservatives or Trump MAGA people, the support for the Iran war is over 90%.

And now why? How could that be, when they have told us that there’s a widespread civil war among the MAGA people? That’s what the Left is saying. But when you look at the people who are objecting, you know, it’s the Steve Bannon wing, the Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, maybe Megyn Kelly, I don’t know.

And they’re saying that this is contrary to the MAGA philosophy of no optional wars. It would be if we insert ground troops, and we’re there for months.

I mean, if we end up bombing, as Barack Obama did, in Libya for seven months without congressional authority, one of the last things he did while in office was to bomb Libya, then that would be another matter.

But nobody has ever seen a war in which one side destroyed the entire air force of the enemy, the entire navy of the enemy, and has got pretty much 90% of its ballistic missile arsenal nullified and probably 85% of the drones and decapitated the entire command and control of the military. And now is looking at secondary targets where maybe Revolutionary Guard headquarters and regional areas, but there hasn’t really been any American losses of equipment.

We’ve had, tragically, seven people killed. But tragically and terribly as that is, in a war of 10 days with being that kinetic, it’s very rare to see such few casualties.

I mean, we’re looking at the Ukraine war. There’s been 1,200,000 Russians killed and probably another two million wounded, probably three or 400,000 Ukrainians. So, this isn’t comparable to what we’ve seen.

And I think the president understands that there is a deadline. And the deadline is going to be met. And the deadline consists of we do not want this war to drag on with the midterms coming up. And he wants to pivot back to the economy.

And the people on the MAGA base who are saying that the party is split in two, they don’t really have a constituency, as the polls, I just told you, illustrate.

They’re loud, they have audiences, and they make points that, you know, you can consider. But they don’t represent a constituency, at least not yet.

On the other side, this sort of, on-to-Cuba, Lindsey Graham wing of the party, I think that after Venezuela, which we didn’t lose anybody. We lost some wounded people that were hurt, but we have a Venezuela solution of a strong person there that will be an improvement over Nicolas Maduro and might lead to elections.

But we’re not going to go on the ground and insist that we’re going to create Carmel, California, in Venezuela.

And we have, as I said earlier, three choices and they’re all preferable to what’s there now in Iran, how the war in Iran ends.

And so, after that, I think the president will say, I’m going to concentrate on making sure that the Western Hemisphere is free, and it’s not captive to the cartels, and it doesn’t kill Americans.

And obviously Cuba might be a concern, but there’s no need now to go into Cuba or to bomb Cuba to do any of that. It’s falling. It’s dying on the vine. And the more pressure we apply, insidiously so, not kinetic or dramatic, it’ll soon, I think, deteriorate to a point where there’ll be a change of government.

But that’s something in the future.

Right now, I think the MAGA base and the Republicans are sticking with Trump because they don’t see oil prices spiking. They don’t see the economy in danger, and they don’t see the war dragging on for months and months like the Libyan fiasco or the misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq.

What we’re looking at instead, I think, is a spectacular achievement of getting rid of the two worst governments that we were dealing with in Venezuela.

And if we don’t get rid of the one in Iran, at least it’s neutered or nullified so it doesn’t have the clout to subsidize terrorists, and it doesn’t have the wherewithal to threaten us or our allies in Europe, in the Middle East.

More importantly, the Gulf states are now openly hostile or at war with Iran, and they will not be subsidizing Hamas or Hezbollah or the Houthis to the same degree they were in the past, and Iran won’t be doing it at all.

I think people have absorbed that, and now it’s time, I think, to think of the midterms and if they can, they being the Trump people, can overturn the historical trends that the in party usually loses the first midterm, dramatically loses seats in the House and Senate. And maybe they can avoid that by having good economic news.

And with the deregulation, the tax cuts, the energy development, the foreign investment, the interest rates coming down. I think there’s a good chance by June or July, as I’ve said earlier, the economy will be strong and he can point to the foreign policy successes, and that is reflected in the overwhelming support that the recent polls show for the Trump agenda.