The coming midterms lay bare a divide that runs deeper than policy and older than any party platform.
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that → come → platform
Beneath every debate sits a single question, and it is the question on which this election turns: Who do you trust to run your life, you or the government?
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you → sit → you
The current Republican majority arrived in Congress in January 2025 and spent the next 20 months answering that question.
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majority → arrive → question
After record highs of hundreds of thousands of illegals streaming over the southwest border into the country under President Joe Biden, we’ve slammed the door shut.
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we → stream → door
We now have the most secure border in modern American history.
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We → have → history
Families in El Paso, Texas no longer worry about migrants roaming the streets at night.
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migrants → worry → night
We’ve funded and empowered law enforcement for the first time since 2020, resulting in the largest recorded drop in violent crime in FBI history.
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We → fund → history
Now a mother in Chicago can let her son play outside after school without worry.
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son → let → worry
The Working Families Tax Cuts delivered the largest tax cut for the middle class in American history, putting money where it belongs: back in the pockets of those who earned it.
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who → deliver → it
Republicans put real money back into the hands of the waitress closing out a double shift, the lineman working and the retiree who spent a lifetime building this country.
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who → put → country
We lifted Washington's weight off your backs, shrinking the federal government to its smallest level since 1966.
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We → lift → 1966
We rolled back red tape that drove up the price of a car and many appliances and stood between ambitious Americans and the businesses they dreamed of starting.
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they → roll → Americans
That is what small government with big results looks like.
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government → look → results
Our record rests on a conviction the Founders would immediately recognize: Free people, left alone to build, will build something worth keeping.
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people → rest → something
The other side makes its convictions just as plain.
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convictions → make → ?
Prominent Democrats demand that we defund the police.
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we → demand → police
Democrats speak openly of abolishing the Senate, packing the Supreme Court and stripping away Second Amendment rights.
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Democrats → speak → rights
When the Working Families Tax Cuts came to a vote, every Democrat in Congress opposed them, voting to take more money out of your pocket.
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Democrat → come → pocket
That’s not government serving its people; that’s Washington grabbing your wallet with both hands and calling it help.
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Washington → ’ → it
The Democrats’ ideas grow from the belief that government belongs above the individual, an idea that found fertile soil in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
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that → grow → America
The DSA calls for collective ownership of major parts of the economy, and works to elect more socialists.
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DSA → call → socialists
You might think the DSA is some marginal group in this country.
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DSA → think → country
More than 250 DSA-backed Democrats hold office across the country today.
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Democrats → back → country
The Democratic Party is fully locked in with the radical group.
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Party → lock → group
Socialism and communism are twin evils, bound by a shared conviction that a central, all-powerful government must be trusted.
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government → bind → conviction
Both Karl Marx’s 1875 "Critique of the Gotha Programme" and Vladimir Lenin’s 1917 "The State and Revolution" make clear that socialism is the first phase of a social transition to communism.
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is → make → communism
And history offers many warnings about what happens after that transition.
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what → offer → transition
In Havana, Cuba, the pastel mansions of a once-glittering city have spent six decades dissolving into the salt air.
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mansions → glitter → air
Seen from orbit at night, North Korea is a vast patch of darkness where a nation of millions ought to be glowing.
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nation → see → millions
In the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s, people stood for hours in the winter dark outside shops whose shelves had been stripped long before they reached the door.
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they → stand → door
Each time the promise was paradise, financial equality for all working men and women, an escape from capitalism’s worst impulses.
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promise → work → impulses
Each time the ending arrived in the same form.
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ending → arrive → form
It came in neighborhoods where people had learned to lower their voices to avoid punishment for criticizing the all-powerful government.
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people → come → government
It came in cities where no one expected the lights to come back on.
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lights → come → cities
It came in lines formed where families waited for hours for meager subsistence for the dinner table.
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families → come → table
And on the other is a group of individuals prepared to ignore the whole of history to embrace a politics that sets aside the element that has always underpinned the American experiment: human agency.
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that → ignore → experiment
Prominent Democrats demand that we defund the police.
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we → demand → police
Democrats speak openly of abolishing the Senate, packing the Supreme Court and stripping away Second Amendment rights
We’ve clung tight to that beautiful individualism through 250 years.
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We → speak → years
That’s the vision behind the Revolution that birthed this country.
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that → ’ → country
We’ve leaned on that ideal through a war fought to end the evil of slavery, a Great Depression that swallowed the poor and middle class, a war in Indochina that ripped the country apart, a stunning and catastrophic terror attack and multiple technological revolutions.
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that → lean → country
…and 8 more, not listed.
The Aporia
