The next election could be upsetting for Republicans, a key Donald Trump impeachment witness said.
In a conversation published with Trump family member and trained psychologist Mary Trump, retired Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who testified against Trump in the ex-president's first impeachment, predicted that the political pendulum will swing against the GOP after Trump's second term in office.
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"I think going forward, there was an opportunity for an anti-incumbency sweep of the Republican party and Trump in 2026 and 2028, because things are not going to get better. Inflation doesn't look like it's going to go down. It's going to go up because of tariffs. There's not anything that's going to be done to make things easier on people's lives. Safety nets are being snatched away. And I think that's a recipe for a huge reversal to the Republicans and to [Donald]," he said. "More importantly, this is going to sound strange, and it's a long ways away, but I'm generally a pretty good analyst of the long distant issues, maybe better on the foreign policy side, but the overreach of the Republicans and the amount of damage they're going to do is actually going to invite maybe a unique opportunity to do things that seemed impossible under previous administrations because things were too close."
He continued:
"Comprehensive immigration reform, maybe even a bigger move towards universal healthcare. And the centrality of values to interests. We need to course correct from the hyper-transactional in all these mistakes that [Donald] is going to do, certainly. And therefore, I think there's an opportunity, a unique opportunity to refocus on values, long-term aims of the United States on the foreign policy and security side, the way we take care of our people, and really course correct, like a pendulum swinging so far off to the side that it's going to have to start to swing in the other direction. There are unique opportunities."
He concluded, "We just need leaders that are capable of understanding, seeing there's going to be unique opportunities, not for small baby steps, but huge course corrections to seize the moment and do really some bold things for the American people going forward."