Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security will be gutted.
Just this week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) reopened the quest for the holy grail of Republican government: cutting Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security to pay for tax cuts for their donors. He called the rising deficits caused by the Republican tax cuts “disturbing” and instead placed the blame on “entitlements.”
The ACA will be repealed (and yes, that includes protections for pre-existing conditions).
In one of the most bizarre political spectacles in memory, Republican members of Congress are desperately trying to convince voters that they cherish protections for people with pre-existing conditions, and they pretend to be indignant that anybody would suggest they ever voted against those protections.
Rule of law will continue to be corrupted.
For Donald Trump, corruption and attacks on the rule of law have been like breathing, and surviving the midterms unchecked will be the longest, deepest, most relieved breath he’s ever taken. The corruption will balloon, and any accountability will shrivel.
Immigrant children will be traumatized as a “deterrent.”
Despite bogus protestations to the contrary, the Trump administration did indeed have a child separation policy, and it was indeed intended to provoke such shock and trauma that no family from any “shithole country” would dare set foot in America again.
The 2020 election will likely be rigged.
Trump has been advertising it since the days after he was elected: He will support every possible means of suppressing the minority vote in the name of fictitious widespread “voter fraud.”