10 reasons you should vote for Democrats and against Trump in midterm elections. ASAP. If you don't want to reward Trump, vote for Democrats and do it soon. The alternative is a future of health care rollbacks and corruption eruptions.

Jason Sattler | Opinion columnist

Donald Trump's secret advantage in 2016 was that so few people imagined he could win. As a result, the press fixated on John Podesta’s creamy risotto recipe more than Trump’s plans for the more than 20 million Americans who gained insurance through Obamacare.

No responsible human should be making this mistake in 2018.

Trump may have the highest disapproval rating of any new president in polling history and he is the only American who has fewer buildings named after him because he was elected president. Yet Republicans could easily keep both the House and the Senate.

The last two years of a Republican House focused more on obstruction than oversight will seem like a slight rumbling compared to the eruption of corruption that could drown our democracy over the next two years.

This is a president who is facing seven investigations and refuses to reveal his financial ties to foreign dictators who may have helped fund his 2016 campaign. Every American who doesn’t want to reward him needs to vote — for Democrats. And you should vote early if you can, to reduce lines on Election Day and free up your day to help get people to the polls.

Here’s what will happen if you don’t.

1. Affordable Care Act repealed.

Trump likes to remind his rally crowds that just one vote kept the GOP from fully repealing Obamacare. The man who cast that vote is now dead. If Republicans hold the House, they will certainly gain seats in the Senate. And if this happens, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he’ll begin repeal again, of course.

2. The return of discrimination against Americans with pre-existing conditions.

Republicans have already undermined the ACA’s protections for people with pre-existing conditions. But every proposal to replace Obamacare would make this worse by allowing states to help insurers gouge sick people, limit benefits or lock people out of the market for 6 months at a time. Cancer patients will be left to die and Republicans will just keep pretending that they're not bringing back the cruelest feature of America's health care system.

3. The end of Medicaid as we know it.

When Republicans celebrated the passage House Trumpcare bill on the White House lawn, which would have uninsured 23 million Americans, they were also celebrating a slash to Medicaid so massive that it would hardly be fair to call it Medicaid anymore. These cuts would have a “devastating impact on health care for over 70 million people who rely on Medicaid, including over 30 million children and millions of seniors, people with disabilities, pregnant women, and low-income adults,” the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found.

4. Cuts for Medicare and Social Security.

Don’t believe the GOP will cut America’s most popular earned benefits? Ask the GOP. After giving almost two trillion dollars in tax cuts mostly to the rich and their corporations, Mitch McConnell has said we need to go after “the real drivers of the debt,” which to him are Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid. The House GOP Budget promises cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. Trump has promised he won’t cut Medicare. But he has already proposed huge cuts to Social Security and Medicaid, both of which he has promised to protect. Didn't stop him then and won’t stop him when he has a chance to live out more Republican fantasy.

5. Planned Parenthood “defunded.”

If Republicans have 50 Senate votes to deny federal funding to America’s largest single provider of reproductive care to women, the pressure from the right to do it will be irresistible.

6. The death of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Wall Street regulation.

Republicans will gut or get rid of the only new agency set up to prevent another Great Recession, one that has already saved consumers more than $12 billion. And Republicans will keep erasing the few regulations put in place after the 2007-2008 crisis. “A financial market deregulated is like a zoo without bars,” investor Henry Kaufmann said. So yes, it's already time to start worrying about the next financial crisis.

7. More money funneled from real needs to persecuting immigrants.

As pressure to cut a skyrocketing deficit mounts along with the cost of even more tax cuts, Trump’s lust to divert resources to focus on non-criminal immigrants will demand real cuts to real disaster and emergency health needs to pay for a wall and other symbolic affronts we don’t need.

8. Even less oversight.

Forget about finally getting a hearing into the nearly 3,000 Americans left to die after Maria, even the pettiest offenses will be ignored. “For every dollar Congress invests in agency inspectors general, their offices recover $17 in costs savings from their investigations into government fraud, waste and abuse,” Jory Heckman of the Federal News Network reports. The Trump Administration want to slash funding to the little oversight that’s happening in the government as it transforms the courts into the shape of giant rubber stamp.

9. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation ended or gutted — and pardons for the whole Trump campaign.

If the GOP wins the House, expect this to happen before Speaker Paul Ryan departs to begin his career as a lobbyist. (Warning: This will probably happen even if the GOP loses the House.)

10. Countless horrors we cannot imagine.

But let's try. Say there's a Senate with 50 post-midterm votes for anything Trump says he wants, and a House run by the conservatives who engineered the assault on the FBI’s Russia investigation. The damage this Congress could do would be incalculable — from voting rights, public education, American diplomacy and the civil service, to treaties and trade agreements, the environment and the rights of LGBT Americans.

If we get a Democratic House, Trump will never accept its legitimacy and will blame Democrats for every problem in the world, as he does already. But it will be worth it for the subpoena power and the hope that our government can begin to work as the Constitution intended.

But first you have to vote, as soon as you can.

Jason Sattler, a writer based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is a member of USA TODAY’s Board of Contributors and host of "The GOTMFV Show" podcast. Follow him on Twitter: @LOLGOP