Openings for the Grift Empire to Strike Back

1. SCOTUS, by 5-4 decision in Department of State v. AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (Chief Justice siding with liberals), chose not to fully rein in the political hack District Court Judge Amir Ali who had ordered Trump to keep paying the USAID grifter network. SCOTUS sent back the case with ambiguous orders. If SCOTUS gives leeway to the Commie Grift Empire to delay and sandbag DOGE with lawfare, our joy will fade fast. If the battle can be won with speed and rapid attacks, we win. If, instead, it is multi-year protracted trench warfare across multiple elections, we lose.
2. It is extraordinarily risky to do a tariff war. Both sides take hits, and there simply cannot be surprise economic repercussions before the mid-terms. Worse, will a show of patriotic Canadian opposition to Trump's perceived bullying revive the political fortunes of Pierre Castro and his hard-left party?
3. As nauseatingly brain-dead and openly evil as is the leadership of the Democratic Party and their media allies, they still have half the voters and now have enormous survival-driven incentives to organize cheat as never before. Slogans and lines of attack that would make Josef Goebbels blush are likely. Turnout by necro-Americans in Wisconsin and Michigan could be decisive. Will the GOP be fat, content and lazy, and lose in 2026?
4. As a DC metro area resident, I already know firsthand of several high-salary individuals now jobless because of DOGE, and there is much talk of wide economic hits to local businesses of all kinds. This immediate area is already largely a GOP-free zone, so the net political effect is minimal, but only if it remains local. There cannot be similar fears and losses in more electorally significant areas. There absolutely has to be rapid economic and job growth to keep a dominant positive narrative.

We can still lose this war. The Germans are colder and hungrier than we are. -Gen. George S. Patton Jan 4, 1945.