Trump needs to deliver for working-class people, or he will be impeached in 2026

Tax cuts for the rich aren't going to cut it this time around, Donald. The Democrats will take the House and Senate in 2026 if Trump betrays working-class voters.

I bumped into a couple of interesting videos on YouTube of James Carville giving his take on why the Democrats lost, and what they should do in terms of opposing Trump. Here are the videos, in case you want to watch them.

I apologize in advance for including The Bulwark interview; just disregard the interviewer and listen to what Carville had to say:

I must admit to all of you that I have always admired Carville. He is an old-time Democrat from the days when the party knew it had to have the votes of the poor and working-class, long before the woke mind virus infected it. His commentary should be taken seriously by the Democratic Party, but they probably will not listen because they see him as an “old White man” and thus regard him as someone to completely ignore. Well, they did that in 2024, and it blew up in their faces, but they appear to be too stupid and arrogant to understand the reasons why they lost.

Carville, alas, does not fully understand the depth of the anti-White male hatred in the Democratic Party. Nor does he understand why that hate has driven so many White males away from that party and into the hands of the Republicans, or to stay at home and not bother to vote at all. In that sense, the discrimination against White males is a big blind spot with Carville. He is old enough now that he doesn’t understand how things like DEI have affected White males in the workplace.

In his defense, Carville does generally understand how woke communism helped destroy the Democrats in 2024, though he calls it “identitarianism.” I’m not going to harp on his choice of words, but he at least understands why the woke bullshit permeated the Democratic Party like the stink of a bad fart. I give him credit for speaking out against the woke commie bullshit all the way back in 2021, but the people running the Democratic Party totally blew off his commentary and didn’t heed his warnings about how the woke crap would cost the party dearly at some point.

The Democrats have no one to blame but themselves for losing working-class voters. The party stupidly went full-woke commie while simultaneously opening the southern border to a wave of illegal aliens that have destroyed the ability of working-class people to earn decent wages. And the Democrats have presided over a massive wave of inflation that has made it damn near impossible for poor and working-class people to survive while trying to pay their rent or mortgage, buy food, gas, and other necessities.

Trump was smart enough to capitalize on the stupidity of the Democrats, and that was what won him the election. He also realized that the shitty trade deals that the Democrats embraced also have to go, and that tariffs should be used to protect domestic industries that provided jobs for workers. Trump also knows that costs for food and energy must be brought down as quickly as possible to help workers at the low end survive. Thus, he knows that he must unleash the domestic energy industry and bring the costs for workers way down from where they are now.

The Democrats, living in their woke bubble, did not give a damn about any of this. Not surprising since so many Democrats work for the government or are financially connected to it. As long as the sweet government cash flowed into their pockets. Why would they spend five minutes caring about workers who aren’t on the government payroll? The Democrats also fully embraced the Global Warming Cult and went full speed ahead with it, trying to force a transition to electric cars and unreliable solar and wind power. They also demonized the earth fuels (oil, natural gas, etc.) that so many people and industries rely on.

One of the more important points made by Carville is that the Democrats should now point out any betrayals by Trump of working-class voters. That got me thinking about Trump’s mistake in his first term of passing what amounted to a big tax cut for the rich. Sure, working-class people got a few crumbs, but the vast majority of people who benefited were either already rich or at least upper-middle-class. Trump came across to me as completely clueless at the time, and it took four years of Biden screwing everything up to push working-class people back to Trump in the desperate hope that he could fix some of the damage.

This time around, however, Trump cannot afford to ignore his working-class voters. They were the ones that made his victory possible, and if he screws them over again, many will either stay home or bounce back to the Democrats in 2026. James Carville is shrewd enough to know this; thus, he is telling the Democrats to pay attention to what Trump does and then call it out to try to get back some of the voters Trump poached from the Democrats in 2024. Right now, a lot of those working-class voters are in a “wait and see” mode as Trump gets ready to take power. They are still with him and are hoping that he won’t betray them once he starts rolling out his policies.

Imagine the political carnage in DC in 2026 if the Democrats retake the House and Senate. They will spare no effort to go after Trump again, including impeaching him yet again on some stupid bullshit charges. What’s old will be new again if they manage to take the House and Senate, or even just the House. Whose votes stand between the Democrats and retaking Congress? The votes of the working-class and poor who decided to roll the dice on Trump after four years of this hellish Biden economy we have been trapped in.

I have to be very blunt here, and some of you might not like it, but my expectations are that Trump will likely get carried away by his 2024 victory and forget his working-class political base. He is likely to be influenced by certain people around him (possibly Elon Musk and other mega-wealthy orbiters) into going down the same road that he went down last time, in terms of doing little or nothing for his working-class base. I could be wrong about this, and I hope I am, but Carville and the Democrats are waiting to pounce on any screwup by Trump. It will give them all the ammunition they need to say, “We told you so!” to the voters who abandoned the Democrats for Trump.

Don’t get me wrong here about Elon; I’m glad he is on Trump’s side. But Trump cannot do things that are just in the interests of large corporations and banks. And I fear that Elon and others might lead him in that direction, not fully understanding that the votes of working-class people were what put Trump back into office. The banks and the large corporations already have all the money and plenty of power; Trump does not need to and should not represent their interests. He must represent the people who voted for him and gave him his second term.

However, as I have pointed out in previous articles, Trump has a bad habit of forgetting the people who supported him while simultaneously trying to reach out to the people who hate his guts. He did that in his first term, and it blew up in his face. Has he learned his lesson? There is no way to be sure right now, but I have noted in the past how he never learned Politics 101: You dance with the one who brung ya. That means that the first order of business is to take care of your people, because without them, you have NOTHING.

I mentioned the tax reform bill that Trump passed in his first term. That bill gave working-class people very little but gave the rich a great deal. This time around, Trump promised to remove taxes on tips, social security benefits, and overtime. These promises were aimed directly at working-class people and seniors. Can Trump deliver on these promises? Will he even try to do so? We will have to wait and see, but there are millions of people waiting to see what he does, and many of those people are going to vote in 2026. If Trump truly wants a political realignment to stick, then he must do as much as he can to keep those promises. Otherwise, his 2024 victory will be ephemeral and ultimately meaningless.

Trump is already doing things differently this time around with his transition. So perhaps there is some room for optimism that he won’t forget who put him back into the White House. The Democrats put him through hell over the last four years with all the lawfare bullshit, and so it might be that Trump now knows that he needs all of his voters to get his agenda put in place over the next two years, and he needs them again to try to keep control of Congress in 2026. The Democrats will do every single thing they can to regain control of the House and Senate, and Trump will not be on the ballot. So he and the Republican Party cannot afford to alienate his working-class base.

Mark my words here, my friends. If Trump does not deliver the goods for his working-class base, he will live to regret it. The Democrats will make his last two years as president a living nightmare, just like they did in his first term. Does Trump know this? I certainly hope so, but we will have to wait and see. This time around, Trump has different people around him like RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, etc. I hope that they will hold his feet to the fire and pressure him to deliver on his promises for his working-class base.

However, you should prepare yourself for a third impeachment if Trump bungles things, and all those many millions of working-class votes go back to the Democrats or simply stay home in 2026. I hope it doesn’t happen, but brace yourself if it does, because things will get very ugly again.

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