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EPISODE · Apr 13, 2026 · 8 MIN

We can win the midterms, but it's gonna be a fight, it's worse for the left

from Straight Talk With Bill Frady

The path to victory in the 2026 midterms is open but will require a relentless uphill battle, especially for the left. While Democrats currently hold a modest lead in the congressional generic ballot, the party faces significant internal and external headwinds. Externally, they are contending with voter suppression efforts like the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act and aggressive GOP gerrymandering. Internally, the "left" specifically struggles with a divided base split over foreign policy in Gaza and Iran, as well as a "credibility gap" regarding economic affordability. Despite President Trump's low 37% approval rating, Republicans maintain higher favorability scores than Democrats, who risk becoming targets of voter discontent if they cannot offer clear, tangible solutions.

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00:10 Well, hopefully, I'm not speaking to people of little faith. 00:27 Doom isn't a choice. 00:32 We can win the midterms, but it's gonna be a fight. Now it's far worse for the left. 00:40 But it's, I understand where some people might be sitting around going, well, I just don't feel very positive about my future. I get it. I understand. 00:56 But I want you to understand another thing as well. 01:01 We do have a president that is willing to take chances. And we have politicians on the pro-freedom side that are very risk-averse. 01:14 don't know why then the majority you wouldn't think they'd be afraid of their own shadow and they're not willing to go and do what it's going to take to uh get support for most of the electorate and this is all contrasted by the violent leftists who even though they're not in charge of nothing are going full authoritarian in some cases threatening to prosecute and imprison their political opponents for merely implementing settled law next time. 01:44 next time they get in charge. 01:51 except that it can easily be argued that we have no other choice in the matter. Anyone willing to tap into the firehose of filth from the National Socialist Media can see that the collectivists and the anti-liberty side of the spectrum there keeps moving further and further off the rails of what you and I would consider to be decent and they're in the deep throes of insanity at the deep end of the pool of stupidity. 02:17 David Strom said it, he said it is impossible to overstate how deranged ah the left has become. But the primary difference is the left is busy arguing that psychopaths, their psychopaths are the good guys. When the anti-ICE activists try to run over a federal agent, it's she who becomes the hero. When Luigi Mangione shoots an innocent man, well, he's so good looking. 02:45 And that and he's a rock star and a mortal man too. 02:53 And you also gotta remember that the leftists always accuse us of what they themselves are doing. And I think for some people this might actually create confusion. 03:06 But I don't understand what confusion would be. 03:11 I don't understand where it would begin to manifest itself. 03:18 I sit here and I'm trying to think of what it's going to look like or what it means or any of these other things and it's just hard to do. 03:34 Another example is the tendency to tolerate Islamist extremism because they expect it because that's what they do. 03:47 That's what they do. Same template. We know exactly what is going to happen if the leftists cheat their way back into power. Because we can just go look at the UK. Oh my, the UK. Formerly the greatest nation on the planet. No longer. 04:14 They're working, everybody in Europe is working to delete themselves every day. With the help of the left and their Red Green Alliance. 04:24 Then closer to home, all we have to do is look north. And in both cases, one key authoritarian crossing point is leading to a dangerous spiral, downward spiral, with open borders, two-tier justice, no free speech, and a culture of death. 04:42 But now it's working its way down, you know, it's in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the state of Rhode Island. 04:48 Virginia is a bitter lesson in what happens in the throes of voter apathy. Because that seems to be something we, how do we fall into that? How do we get to the point where we're saying, I don't even care what happens there. I don't care what becomes of us or me or my children, you know, how do we get to that point? How do we get to that point where we're saying, well, you know, I don't really care. 05:18 No one outside certain segments of the pro-freedom community ever wants to admit a basic truth. 05:25 that depriving the people of their common sense human right of self-defense is always the first step to tyranny and disaster. That has always been the coronary and the coal mine of civil rights. It's the first sign of danger. And in the UK and Canada, they're o ...

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