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Martin Fey| For The Bulletin

With the traditionally slow summer news cycle upon us, the dust from the controversial 2020 federal election receding in the rearview mirror, and an evenly divided Senate stymying the Democrats dream of Biden administration accomplishments rivalling Franklin Roosevelts New Deal, its time to bring out the political crystal ball and make some 2022 mid-term predictions.

So, for what its worth, heres the vision: If the Democrats dont seriously trim their planned $6 trillion spending spree, and back away from political and ideological positions that the vast majority of Americans instinctively reject, they will lose control of both House and Senate. It will be 2010 all over again, and Bidens term will end by circling the drain for two years until it is flushed for good in 2024.

To start, the GOP has history on its side. The party in the White House typically loses 27 House seats in the midterms, and in 2020 Republicans unexpectedly pulled to within eight seats of the majority. Along with that momentum, the next election will follow redistricting in key states including Texas, North Carolina and Florida, where Republican-controlled legislatures will have redrawn the lines of crucial House districts. It is highly likely that, even without Democrat overreach, Nancy Pelosi will again be handing over the speakers gavel.

Democrats are also defending 23 seats in the Senate this time around, while Republicans only have to worry about 10, almost all of them in red states.

Potential losses for Democrats include Sen Raphael Warnock in traditionally red Georgia. He won a partial term in the January runoff by only 2 points, attributable in part to the negative press given Trumps allegations of Georgia votefraud. Georgia voters are now more upset about the economic impact of Democrat-encouraged boycotts of the state as retaliation for very unremarkable legislative changes in the states voting laws that Biden called Jim Crow 2.0. A solid majority of US voters see voter ID requirements for polls and absentee ballots as a good thing, recognizing that to do otherwise undermines faith in our democratic system.

Arizona Democrat Mark Kelly also won his first term in November by just 2 points and is considered vulnerable if Republicans pick the right candidate, and Nevadas Senate newbie, Catherine Cortez Masto, may face a formidable foe in Republican State Attorney General Adam Laxalt. In New Hampshire, first-term senator Maggie Hassan is likely to face the scion of a formidable Republican family, Gov. Chris Sununu.

If Republicans hold onto what they have and manage to tip even one senate seat, Biden must either go bi-partisan or go home.

Without the great Satan Donald Trump on the 2022 ballot to motivate the Democrat base, there will be no leftist rallying point. Republican voters, many still fuming over Trumps loss, are already aching for revenge. Without Trump as a whipping boy, the Democrats will be judged on not only what they did but also on what they intended to do.

Independent voters, who decide elections, are mostly center-right. Todays Democrats are speaking the language of the left -- Critical Race Theory, reparations, defunding police departments, a porous southern border, downplaying sharply rising urban shootings and murders, and promoting cancel culture, especially the demotion and denigration of American heroes like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt. Americans of all colors are recoiling from the racist notion, promoted by Democrat support groups like BLM, that whiteness is an original sin that cant be cured, and that Whites are intrinsically oppressors.

But the fatal mistake Democrats are making is unprecedented spending plans that would push the national debt over with the $30 trillion mark. Concern over government spending led to the Tea Party movement and cost Democrats 60 seats and control of the House in the 2010 midterms, and that spending was insignificant by todays standards. Most voters, many of whom lived through the rampant inflation of the 1970s, know Democrats cant suspend the economic law of supply and demand. Annual inflation, which was near zero for years, is now near 6 percent and headed higher. When the current federal cornucopia is finally eaten up by the tax we call inflation, they will know who to blame.

Martin Fey is a member of the Quiet Corner tea Party Patriots.

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View from the right: Democrats' push for progressive change will hurt them in the mid-terms - Norwich Bulletin