Opposition Congresses Put Partisan Destruction Ahead of Geopolitics, and Democrats Will Likely Do the Same to Trump
Source: https://www.facebook.com/americanspectator/. "Will Democrats Bring Down Trump as They Did Nixon? | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics." November 9, 2026. spectator.org
The Gist
The author argues that when the opposition party controls Congress, it tends to go after the president even in the middle of delicate international crises, as happened with Nixon and Reagan. With Democrats now winning Congress, he expects them to try the same on Trump while he is managing wars and global tensions, and he hopes Trump survives as Reagan did.
Conclusion
After the November 2026 midterms, Democrats in Congress (with the media) will likely try to politically destroy President Trump, as they did Nixon and attempted with Reagan, at a dangerous time in international affairs. The nation should hope Trump survives as Reagan did rather than falling as Nixon did.
Premises
- The idea that 'politics stops at the water's edge' has never really been true; wartime or crisis truces between the parties are temporary.
- In 1973-74 an opposition Congress, the special counsel's office and the elite media drove Nixon from office while he was conducting successful foreign policy (triangular diplomacy, deterring the Soviets in the Yom Kippur War, winding down Vietnam), and this doomed South Vietnam and invited a Soviet geopolitical offensive.
- In 1986-87 an opposition Congress tried to unseat Reagan over Iran-Contra while he was negotiating with Gorbachev; it failed, and the Cold War ended and the world became safer.
- The 2026 midterm results give the opposition control of Congress, and the U.S. now faces three regional crises (Iran, Russia-Ukraine, the western Pacific) that could converge into a world war.
- Trump is pursuing his own triangular diplomacy with Russia and China and trying to wind down the war with Iran, but his opponents do not care about this and will put the politics of destruction ahead of geopolitics.
Assumptions
- The Nixon and Reagan episodes are close enough analogies to Trump's situation to predict Democratic behavior.
- Opposition efforts against Nixon and Reagan were driven mainly by partisan desire to destroy rather than by real misconduct or legitimate oversight.
- Nixon's fall caused the fall of South Vietnam and Soviet expansion, rather than other factors.
- Trump's foreign policy is effective and is reducing the risk of global war.
- Congressional oversight or impeachment efforts would necessarily hamper Trump's foreign policy and endanger national security.
- Foreign policy success should take priority over accountability for alleged presidential wrongdoing.