Vice President JD Vance recently argued that the president's party has become almost impossible to keep unified control of the House and Senate through a midterm, but columnist Ronald Brownstein says Trump and earlier presidents have helped make that outcome self-fulfilling. The last five times a president entered a midterm with unified control, voters took it away, and Republicans look likely to lose the House and perhaps the Senate on Nov. 3. Brownstein argues both parties front-load party-line agendas rather than broadening coalitions, and that Trump has treated outside groups as enemies, pursuing tariffs, a war with Iran, mass deportation and spending cuts that Democrats and independents largely oppose. He notes that coalitions led by Lincoln's Republicans, FDR and LBJ held unified power long enough to consolidate their achievements, while no party has managed more than four consecutive years of unified control since 1968.
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