As usual, a power shift in Congress is coming in November. That is the “normal.” Voters install the opposition because life still feels hard, and because political promises have been broken. Nothing else was to be expected.

It is also quite possible that Donald Trump mistimed the confrontation with Iran, or the moment for a final deal, handing Democrats an easy campaign theme. And people rarely enjoy paying too much for gasoline. But not everything is dark for Republicans and those on the right.

When Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, Republicans secured a trifecta — almost a quadfecta. Power in the White House, both chambers of Congress, and the Supreme Court. That was the starting gun for a large reform effort to put the ship on the right course, as they see it: immigration, tax reform, DOGE and spending cuts, turning foreign aid upside down, getting NATO countries to spend more on defense, landing a deal with Venezuela and pulling it onto the American side, away from Iran and China.

Making the United States the world’s largest oil producer. Building an attractive investment climate at home, with massive investment in mainland industry and data centers — the largest in the world. Preventing choking regulation of AI models.

Opening up to new forms of payment. All of this has delivered record-high stock indexes and record-high private investment. Higher average wages and low unemployment.

But the window was short. They knew they only had two years, and little time. Now the left will most likely celebrate new majorities in the Senate and the House in November.

The celebration may take the form of impeachment proceedings and endless hearings about everything the Trump administration is said to have done wrong in its brief stretch of executive power. There will be no shortage of material. But do not despair, dear conservative voter: the course is set.

A lame-duck president after reforms this large means more of the same. Even as the news fills with hearings and criticism, taxes remain lower, investment continues, energy is available, people without legal status are being removed, and wasting public money has become deeply unpopular. Because course matters.

If you buy an apartment to rent out, it is decisive that it returns a certain yield every year. Then you know the course is set, and you can do other things in the knowledge that things are moving the right way. If property tax is cranked up, interest rates rise and the rental market is crushed, you are suddenly on the wrong course and must make new choices.

So it is with most things in life. Look at California, where high taxes and heavy regulation have pushed companies and talent toward Texas and Florida. Once the course feels wrong, people and capital leave — and the only lasting answer is to set a better one.

We have two years left before the course in the United States can possibly be reversed.