Andrew Sullivan’s message to Trump is blunt: resign. In his November 6 column, Sullivan argues the election was a public vote of no confidence, pointing to Democratic gains in Congress, governorships and traditionally Republican states. He’s making a political argument, not describing an actual constitutional process to remove the president. Democrats have secured control of both chambers, with at least 54 Senate seats and a substantial House majority. The defeat has also exposed a split inside Trump’s own coalition. JD Vance blamed the Iran war, inflation, the cost of living and the administration’s relationship with Israel, saying many people who voted for Trump in 2024 switched to Democrats. Trump has acknowledged that the war hurt Republicans, but says he would make the same decision again. That disagreement is already becoming part of the fight over who owns the party after the election.
The religious right is having its own post-election reckoning. The Christian Post collected reactions from conservative pastors and political activists, some describing the results as God’s judgment or divine chastisement. Family Research Council president Tony Perkins blamed the defeat partly on the country’s moral direction, while other leaders complained that evangelical voters failed to turn out. But the explanation isn’t simply that Christians stayed home. Vance’s argument points directly at the war and the administration’s political choices. Conservative Christian leaders now have to confront a difficult question: did the movement lose voters because of its own political priorities, or because the party it backed stopped delivering on the promises those voters cared about?
And just before Veterans Day, an anonymous art collective put another Trump statue on the National Mall. The Foot Soldier shows Trump sitting and rubbing his foot, with a plaque mocking the Vietnam-era bone-spurs diagnosis that helped him receive a medical draft deferment. A six-foot toe mascot called Toey accompanied the installation. The White House dismissed it as another case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. The artists say the statue is a protest over Trump’s military-service record and his willingness to send others into war. Coming after an election in which the Iran conflict became a source of Republican division, the timing was hard to miss.
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/resign-mr-president
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jd-vance-2026-midterms-iran/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/10-takeaways-from-trump-60-minutes-interview/
https://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-leaders-react-to-midterm-catastrophe-offer-hope.html
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