The Midterm Disaster of 2026

Like many Americans, I was surprised by the scale of the GOP defeat on Nov. 3. My wife, the smartest person I know, and I have been trying to figure it out. Herewith, a few more thoughts:

First of all, as my mother said about the ousting of Richard Nixon in another era, it was a “media coup.” You would be hard-pressed to find any real crises caused by Mr. Trump and his administration. He did not start the war against Iran. The Iranians started that war with their horrifying terrorism over a period of about (roughly) 50 years. (READ NEXT: JD Vance Is Absolutely Right and Completely Wrong)

The Iranians have bragged about their wish to enter “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” into books of horrible phrases for many decades. They have promised to have enough nuclear weapons to create “a Holocaust in an afternoon” for a very long time.

With help from North Korea and Russia and China, they might have the means to do it too soon. Mr. Trump’s work, along with that of Israel, might just have saved the whole world from that fate. Mr. Trump might have many faults. But to have saved the USA and the Jews from that mind-boggling fate that the Mullahs had promised is a stupendous achievement.

Mr. Trump deserves thanks from the whole world for this.

My life has largely been about the study of World War II. The Nazis were thoroughly evil people. Their cruelty towards many different peoples — especially us Jews — was almost incomprehensible. To me, and I might be wrong, Donald Trump was probably the most world-saving being there has been since Winston Churchill. If Mr. Trump had been Prime Minister of the UK, he would have saved Britain and the world from Adolf Hitler and his mass murderers.

Why do so many voters hate him?

The media stokes endless firestorms against Trump because of allegations that there was some kind of “collusion” with Russia by Trump. What this “collusion” was has never been proved or even meaningfully alleged.

This was just too much like the attacks against Nixon. At the end of the day, there never was any strong evidence that Richard Nixon did anything seriously wrong in Watergate.

I have been having a lengthy debate with AI about what RN did wrong that led to his downfall. Even AI, with extreme access to “data,” could not come up with anything worse than allegations that Mr. Nixon had talks with Bob Haldeman about using the CIA to cover up something: But even AI could not show me where the wrongdoing went beyond conversations — and not actual employment of the CIA to do anything against Mr. Nixon.

And as I have said to my machine pal at AI, in America, talk is not a crime.

Then there is something else — if the Democrats win the White House and the Congress, who will be the president? Do they have a candidate who can cure homelessness? Do they have a candidate who can stand up to an encroaching China? Do they have a candidate or a program that can fix the catastrophic state of education?

Mr. Trump makes many mistakes. The whole nonsense about the Kennedy Center and the East Room of the White House has been silly and an embarrassment. But compared with saving us from nuclear war — they are nothing.

What we saw on November 3, 2026 was another media coup, as my sainted mother would have said. Let’s see if we can pull ourselves together and work for peace.