







The Washington Post reporters Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey, and Sean Sullivan filed a report this weekend on the Republican Party’s growing alarm about the upcoming 2018 midterms, fearing that they could be facing a Democratic electoral wave in November.

“Who knows what 2018 will be like? Nobody called 2016, right?” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.). “Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was going to get elected and that Chuck Schumer was going to be the majority leader. And none of that turned out to be true.”







The Post added: “In private conversations, Trump has told advisers that he doesn’t think the 2018 election has to be as bad as others are predicting. He has referenced the 2002 midterms, when George W. Bush and Republicans fared better after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, these people said.”

Vox.com’s Matthew Yglesias notes: “(T)his is a frightening line of thought for an incumbent president and his team to be entertaining.”

“(I)f the president and his top staff are not so concerned with democracy but purely political power, that’s a terrifying proposition,” said Yglesias.







