The midterms were a Democratic wave: Democrats flipped both the House and the Senate and now control Congress. Senate flips included Kansas, Iowa, Texas, Ohio, Maine, North Carolina, and South Carolina, while in Ohio Amy Acton beat Vivek Ramaswamy for governor and in Texas Gina Hinojosa unseated Greg Abbott. Trump says he wasn't on the ballot and blames candidates and gas prices; JD Vance says plainly, "The reason we lost is the war." Eric Sammons argues that one man tore up the coalition: in March 2025 Trump was more popular and powerful than any Republican president in memory, and in less than two years he threw it all away.

Eric also looks at the ballot measures that went the wrong way, including Virginia's abortion amendment and the stripping of marriage language from its constitution, and Bishop Michael Burbidge's response that "fundamental truths, such as the human right to life and the sacredness of marriage, can never legitimately be put to a vote." Plus the Catholic angle on the Iran war and just-war teaching, the bishops and politics, and why Catholics shouldn't pin their hope on either party.

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• President Donald J. Trump: Official White House portrait by Daniel Torok (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons

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