The 2018 midterm election results were a mixed bag overall, and while the Republicans kept control of the Senate and even gained a few seats, the Democrats got the biggest prize of all: control of the House of Representatives, something they haven't had since 2010. The House, as you may know, has the power to initiate impeachment against Trump, and launch all sorts of investigations of him. And Mueller, who has been awfully quiet lately, will be dropping a major bombshell in his investigation of Trump within a matter of days. You know, the Trump-Russia investigation?
No wonder Trump essentially forced Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign today, and replaced him with a Trump loyalist, Matthew Whittaker. He didn't waste any time, and also removed Rod Rosenstein from the investigation as well. But this will likely backfire, as Nixon's infamous "Saturday Night Massacre" comes to mind. Spoiler alert: it didn't end well for him.
No matter how Trump tries to paint it as a victory for himself, the midtern election results overall favored the Democrats, who now have a majority in the House, while the Republicans are barely hanging onto the Senate with a slim majority that can still be filibustered and is no more than a handful of defectors away from failure. And with a few exceptions, most state and local elections also tended to favor the Democrats this time as well, further making it harder for Trump to advance his vile and regressive agenda on the ground.
Trump's days are numbered. Will the Democrats have the intestinal fortitude to do what needs to be done to thwart his agenda and eventually remove him or force him to resign in disgrace? Or will they snatch defeat from the jaws of victory as they have time and again in the past? We don't know, but given all of the newer Democrats in office, they are more likely to prevail now than any other time in recent history--at least the past eight years.
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The Trump-Mueller probe should be of no importance. What is important is that Democrats actually help the working class and middle class. If Democrats only care about promoting regressive leftist ideology or about passing ageist bills, then I wonder why Democrats should not be in the House of Representatives in the first place.
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