Republicans have a midterm problem. Reagan’s American vision is

Democrats are already licking their chops over the 41 House seats Republicans lost in 2018, and they think history is on their side this time too. They might be right, but not for the reason they believe. The problem wasn’t that Trump’s policies were unpopular. It’s that the left spent two years telling a better story about who America is, and too many of our own people stayed silent. That’s where Reagan comes in.

Reagan understood that politics is downstream from culture, and culture is downstream from the stories we tell about each other. He didn’t just cut taxes and win the Cold War. He stood at podiums and pointed at ordinary Americans, the teachers and truck drivers and small-business owners, and made their struggles feel like national triumphs. Trump was too busy fighting the media to do that every day, and the media noticed. They turned him into a cartoon, and too many voters believed the cartoon because nobody on our side offered a better one.

So yes, Republicans have a midterm problem. But the fix isn’t to ditch Trump or pretend his record didn’t happen. The fix is to take Reagan’s playbook and run it with modern energy. Go find the heroes, put them on stage, and let them speak. Show the country who actually keeps it running while the left bickers about pronouns. That’s how you win back the suburbs and the working class. That’s how you make the 41 seats a footnote, not a forecast.