Ronald Brownstein argues that Vice President JD Vance is right that a president's party now rarely keeps unified control of Congress through midterms, but President Trump and his predecessors have helped make that outcome self-fulfilling. The last 5 presidents who entered midterms with unified control lost it, and Republicans are on track to lose the House and possibly the Senate on Nov. 3, extending the streak to 6. He says front-loaded, party-line agendas, including tariffs, the Iran war, mass deportations and spending cuts, have alienated swing voters and the opposition, whereas coalitions that reshaped America, from Lincoln's Republicans to FDR's and LBJ's Democrats, sustained control for long periods. Since 1968, no party has held more than 4 consecutive years of unified control, and Princeton sociologist Paul Starr says Republicans have nobody to blame but themselves for refusing to challenge Trump's war, tariffs and corruption.
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