Commentary The first midterm election after a presidential election is most often a referendum on the new president and his party along with a natural pendulum swing toward the other side. Rarely do individual issues dominate such races. The 2022 midterms, however, could well be different. The 2020 presidential election was, in significant part, the culmination of a five-year battle against Donald Trump. It started before his 2016 election and continued unabated throughout his term in office. The 2020 election of President Joe Biden was far less about him than it was about Trump. Despite the false Russia narrative, the Mueller investigation, and a host of other anti-Trump allegations, the Trump presidency was an economic success—even with COVID. Importantly, average weekly earnings for all workers were up 8.7 percent after inflation. An article published in The Hill states that at the end of Trump’s term, “real GDP was growing at 6.3 percent, inflation …