The 2026 elections were surprising, primarily because of the willingness of Republican voters to break ranks with their party in the national interest, to break their traditional voting allegiance seeking instead to attain the broken pledges of Trump’s successful 2024 campaign. No more wars, concentration on the needs of United States citizens, minimizing corruption. By contrast, the majority of the Democrats currently serving in Congress and those that will assume office early next January seem inclined to ignore the demands of those who just gave them a majority and to continue along the path set for them by their AIPAC masters. That was clear in the recent vote to impeach Secretary of War Peter Hegseth. There, eleven members of the Democratic Party’s contingent in the House of Representatives (all but one beneficiaries of AIPAC largesse) failed for one reason or another to make it to the vote thus saving Mr. Hegseth job; a sort of “the dog ate my homework moment” they expect their electorate to swallow.
The proposed leadership of the Democrats in the next Congress, Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker in the House of Representatives and Chuck Schumer as majority leader in the Senate, Israeli Firsters both, promise more of the same. Plenty of noise with hearings involving the president, his family and allies but only superficial inquiry into the Epstein scandals and especially continued allegiance to Israel and its perpetual wars and to its perpetual draining of United States’ taxpayers’ pockets leaving little for education, healthcare or the social safety net (although Israel enjoys them all).
Ironically, the foregoing may open an avenue for a return to power by Republicans in 2028, but only if Democratic voters are as willing to put their country ahead of their party as were Republican voters in 2026. And if, learning from this year’s massive defeat, the GOP selects its presidential candidate from among the current group of Republican America First rebels, e.g., people like Thomas Massie, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Joe Kent, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, Jackson Hinkle or Rand Paul. The amazing thing would be if the new group of democratic socialists in the Democratic Party, both elected officials and voters, joined with those Republicans in seeking a real answer to the clamor for change by NOT selecting their presidential candidate from the current list of favorites, all AIPAC toadies, but instead, by helping form a real bipartisan, America First movement. Perhaps Democrats like New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, newly minted senator James Talarico, Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, Julia Salazar and Brandon Johnson might bolt their party and join Republican rebels in a national unity ticket. Wouldn’t that be something?
Notwithstanding how likely the betrayal of their voters (if not their funders) by the Democratic Party’s current and prospective leaders and the bulk of its elected officials is, the likelyhood of a unity movement seems improbable. But improbable is not the same as impossible and perhaps the awakening of GOP voters’ consciences and common sense can somehow or other, notwithstanding the duplicitous legacy press, infect enough honest, intelligent and sensible Democrats to make a unity ticket that places the interests of the United States first a reality.
Unlikely, I know, but where there’s life there’s hope, and the 2026 midterm elections demonstrated that at least among the voters (if not among the Democratic Party’s current and prospective leadership), there was a trace of decency (instead of polarizing partisanship).
Perhaps even a trace of life.
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© Guillermo Calvo Mahé; Manizales, 2026; all rights reserved. Please feel free to share with appropriate attribution.
Guillermo (“Bill”) Calvo Mahé (a sometime poet and aspiring empirical philosopher) is a writer, geopolitical commentator and academic currently residing in the Republic of Colombia (although he has primarily lived in the United States of America of which he is also a citizen). Until 2017 he chaired the political science, government and international relations programs at the Universidad Autónoma de Manizales. Previously, he chaired the social studies and foreign language departments at the Eastern Military Academy in Huntington, New York. He is currently the publisher of the Inannite Review available at Substack.com; an intermittent commentator on radio and television in both Colombia and abroad; and, an occasional contributor to diverse periodicals and publications. He has academic degrees in political science (BA, The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina), law (JD, St. John’s University, School of Law), international legal studies (LL.M, the Graduate Division of the New York University School of Law) and translation and linguistic studies (GCTS, the University of Florida’s Center for Latin American Studies). However, he is also fascinated by mythology, religion, physics, astronomy and mathematics, especially with matters related to quanta, cosmology and cosmogony. He can be contacted at guillermo.calvo.mahe@gmail.com and much of his writing is available through his blog at https://guillermocalvo.com/.
