Michael Knowles

But both parties are looking very, very bad.

And then you have the wild card of the Iran war, which is that if the war continues to drag on and we have a recession or we just have surging gas prices or we right now, housing is looking very shaky.

And obviously you get a lot of inflation the longer that the strait remains closed.

All of that could have a very, very acute effect on the midterm elections.

Frankly, that is what the Iranians are counting on.

That's probably the chief aspect of their political strategy right now.

And then what the Trump administration is counting on is that Iran just implodes before that happens.

So that's that very dangerous game.

But I agree with you.

I mean, by all historical precedent, Republicans should be probably blown out of the water in the midterms.

Whether or not these decisions from the courts can help to stop the tide, obviously that remains to be seen.

I certainly hope so.

I hope that we have the discipline that when we lecherously show up to the office water cooler and stand over the desk of that beautiful looking woman who looks suspiciously like a mixture of Gavin Newsom and AOC, that we recognize that it's not worth it.

It is not.

She's going to chop it off.

It's not worth it, as you say.

I agree.

And yes, you do actually see that reflected in some of the polls.

I mean, obviously, the admin has has taken a hit, but the Democrats are looking really, really bad.

There was that op ed in The New York Times just published yesterday.