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The Federalist

Helping Democrats Win In 2026 Should Disqualify You From Being A ‘Conservative Leader’

The Federalist
Helping Democrats Win In 2026 Should Disqualify You From Being A ‘Conservative Leader’

Self-styled 'principled conservatives' and the dissident influencers who claim to oppose them are working toward the same goal: sinking Trump's political movement.

The 2026 midterm elections will come down to President Trump and his supporters versus everyone else who hates America and is willing to lose politically to the left. 

The Democrats obviously hope to use the unpopularity of the Iran War and resulting higher fuel prices to leverage a sweeping victory. Since 2016 we've witnessed a decade of disqualifying animus against Trump, the only viable vehicle for conservative national policy accomplishments, openly displayed by prominent figures who claim to be conservative. We are now in yet another election cycle in which those cheering for Republican defeat are not confined to officially Democrat ranks. 

'Never Trump' Still Fighting

These moves are hardly surprising, given Republican establishment senators have been resisting President Trump since he retook the White House. Republican senators such as Tillis, Cornyn, McConnell, R-Ky., John Curtis, R-Utah, and Bill Cassidy, R-La., constantly obstructed President Trump through blocking or slow-walking some of his best nominees, refusing to eliminate the filibuster to pass the SAVE Act, trying to end President Trump's anti-weaponization fund, and more. 

Vance represents the ascendant right-wing nationalism focused on border security, remigration, law and order, improving the economy for American workers, reshoring industry, eliminating or prudently revising foreign entanglements, and manfully resisting left-wing ideology. The geriatric Republican wing embodied by figures like Tillis, Cornyn, Erickson, and Bush is helping Republicans lose these midterms so they can turn the GOP back into a controlled opposition party supporting endless foreign wars, cheap labor, mass migration, anti-white racism, and political impotence. 

Despite these anti-Trumpers railing against the radicalizing effects of online influencers, there is a symbiotic relationship between establishment Republicans who promote themselves as "principled conservatives" and online influencers who allegedly oppose them. They actually seem to be working toward the same goals — the defeat of Trump's political movement. 

'Dissident Influencers' Ironically Want the Same Thing

To use the most prominent example, Tucker Carlson has not only attacked the Trump administration over the Iran War, but has continually made statements he must know are false about the Trump administration's stances and achievements. For example, Carlson has falsely claimed that Trump is doing nothing about anti-white discrimination, has abandoned immigration enforcement, and more.

Occasional honest criticism is not a problem. But a constant barrage of half-truths and algorithm-pumping hysteria is. Many influencers such as Alex Jones, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, and Owen Shroyer have been effectively running a demoralization campaign that suppresses turnout among Trump voters. The only effect is to enable increasingly rabid Democrats. The Trump administration has an incentive to stack political wins and deliver for American citizens, while dissident influencers may grow their following if they keep insisting things are getting worse and everyone else (including Trump) is lying to them.

Those who use their political power, influence, money, and energy to help the left gain power should be treated as leftists. We should judge people by their function and the consequences of their deeds, regardless of what they say their motives are. 

Trump Is Still Americans' No. 1 Fighter

President Trump has been fighting harder than anyone for the MAGA agenda, while forces within the Republican Party have sought to resist and obstruct his efforts to deliver the results Americans voted for him to achieve. On the key issue of election integrity (which may well decide the midterm elections), Trump constantly urged Congress to pass the SAVE Act to permanently prevent voter fraud, but Republican senators resisted. 

Reasonable criticisms of policy choices such as the Iran War may be leveled against Trump, yet these pale in comparison to domestic policy efforts that rival any Republican president's since at least Ronald Reagan, as well as in comparison to the threats to American liberties of Democrats regaining power.

The reality is that American politics is binary. Democrats pose an existential threat to America, yet after 10 years of endless GOP and influencer back-stabbing of MAGA voters, there's still no shortage of internal "right-wing" sabotage.


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