Larry Summers Will Resign From Harvard Over Ties to Jeffrey Epstein

“If we lost the midterm elections, God forbid, if we lost the majority in the House, that would be the end of the Trump presidency, with real effect,” Johnson said. said. “So we have to keep going and I think we’re excited to put our candidates on the ground to explain all of this to people.”

Johnson seems well aware that if Democrats gain a sizable majority in at least the House, they can slow down Trump’s agenda, subject the White House to investigations, slow or block funding, and even try to impeach administration officials. ICE could be severely curtailed in its reckless and violent deportations and detentions, and laws could be passed against Trump’s gimmicky tariffs.

Trump knows this too, which is why he constantly suggests take charge of the elections and instituting laws aimed at voter suppression, such as SAVE Act. Johnson and his Republican colleagues, rather than using their power as a separate branch of government to check Trump’s bad impulses, want to continue enabling everything he does because they fear he will go after one of them. Meanwhile, the economy continues to falter and federal agents continue to violate the Constitution.