Government sometimes puts on a show of caring about people without solving the problems that matter to them. As a result, people often don’t trust it, and politics usually comes down to a numbers game.
Democrats won the 2026 midterm elections in a big blue wave. In an embarrassing moment in congressional history, the 120th Congress is being marketed as “The Gayest Congress in History.” Abdul El-Sayed, a terrorist sympathizer, was elected to the Senate from Michigan.
President Donald Trump had predicted a Republican win. In a Nov. 3 call broadcast on Fox News and shared by Townhall, he said he “thought we would do a lot better.”
Trump’s record offers lessons for the political scene. A few of his achievements are presented here as a reminder of the 2024 red wave and of what he meant by “I thought we would do a lot better.”
Trump’s CBPHome app was an example of good leadership. Violent crime followed the lack of enforcement against illegal immigration, and the Trump administration created the app to incentivize technically “non-criminal” illegal immigrants to self-deport, while violent immigrants were arrested and/or held in ICE detention centers for processing and deportation to their home countries.
The “non-criminal” illegal immigrants, in the terms spelled out on the CBPHome webpage, were flown back to their country of origin and given up to $3,000 in U.S. dollars during the 2025 holiday period.
A good leader should be generous and flexible. Real estate developer Trump dabbled again in architectural development by beginning construction of a golden ballroom at the White House.
The ballroom idea was generous because the White House did not have a ballroom large enough for major events, as other countries’ official residences do, plus flexible because Trump says he is funding it using private donations rather than taxpayer money.
The U.S. government, in this manner, would not be accused of being too stingy toward U.S. families or too generous toward Trump. Each side got a little of what it desired in the final plan, so the ballroom was a good leadership example.
In January, Trump also captured Nicolás Maduro, a Venezuelan dictator who was endangering many lives. In fact, Maduro and his wife were indicted and faced court proceedings in March of this year. This capture and indictment showed how Trump worked thoroughly when aiming to solve pressing problems and stop the Maduros’ corruption from affecting life in the United States.
Finally, Trump championed the SAVE Act as a response to election corruption present in states that required only minimal (or no) voter ID when casting a ballot. The SAVE Act was a practical idea intended to limit such election tampering by requiring a passport, an authentic photo ID, or citizenship documents at all polling places nationwide.
Leaders should be flexible, generous, diplomatic, and able to overcome their emotions during pressing circumstances. They should also work with others as a team, avoid exaggerating the faults of others, and listen to more than one side of the story in a conflict. The current president intended to do this, and many other Republican leaders have aimed for such goals, including Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and former President Ronald Reagan.
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However, some voters switched from Republicans to Democrats, perhaps out of frustration with the economy and with Trump himself, according to Yahoo News.
To name one example of frustration, the SAVE Act is currently stuck in the Senate. The House of Representatives passed the SAVE Act, but the Senate has left it in limbo.
While we have achieved much using those ideals, we all thought we “would do a lot better,” politically speaking. Many people feel disappointed by the Democratic wave, even while knowing politics is partly a numbers game.
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