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Fiendish Thingy

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4. By this time next year, the suffering will be widespread, affecting all but the billionaires
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 10:31 AM
Thursday

Economy will be in recession, double digit inflation, millions without healthcare or doubled premiums.

Stuff like that can be a great unifier against the party in charge- formerly polarizing issues like trans rights, green new deal, immigration, will fall by the wayside for all but a small percentage of die hard MAGA faithful.

Latinos who voted for Trump are abandoning him in large numbers.

Dems need to contest every house seat and campaign in every precinct for every vote.

Let’s do the math:

Gerrymandering and SCOTUS may provide a GOP advantage (but not a lock) on 19-24 seats that were formerly Dem seats, plus their current margin of 2 seats, minus at least the 5 seats from California prop 50, leaves an advantage of a maximum of 21 seats.

Currently, Dems are projected to pickup 20-30 seats- with Gerrymandering and SCOTUS, that could drop to -1 to +9.

Something to remember:

In 2018, Dems picked up 40 seats, and the economy was in far better shape than it will be in fall 2026

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