Were the Executive Order restrictions on birth-right citizenship not removed before the 2026 midterm polls, not just Indian-Americans but Hispanic Americans as well would shift from Republicans to the Democrats.

It is evident that some of the Executive Orders passed by President Trump are designed to satiate the hunger for complete curbs on immigration legal and illegal of the ultra-MAGA elements in his support base. There has been widespread comment about the curbs even on the rights of legal residents of the United States in matters relating to citizenship given to their children born in the US. Such a right is implicit in the amendment to the US Constitution that was passed in 1868, after the Civil War. Unfortunately, it took four generations before the right to equality of treatment to all citizens throughout the US became effective. Jim Crow laws by former Confederate states that rolled back such rights for African American citizens. To its shame in the annals of history, the US Supreme Court ignored such violations of the Constitution until Earl Warren took over the Supreme Court in 1953 and in his final years, ensured that the Civil Rights Act passed under President Lyndon Johnson in 1964 was approved by the Court. Despite its conservative majority, the present US Supreme Court will not want on itself the ignominy of returning to the pre-Civil Rights days in the US, and is certain to overturn any Executive Order that goes against the US Constitution. As for the Republican Party, overall it would heave a sigh of relief at such a Court decision. Were the Executive Order restrictions on birth-right citizenship not removed before the 2026 midterm polls, not just Indian-Americans but Hispanic Americans as well would shift from Republicans to the Democrats. As a consequence, the Republican Party would lose its majority in the US House of Representatives as well as the Senate, rendering President Trump far less able to get his legislation passed in the US Congress. Such gestures to the ultra-fringe elements in his base have been a boon to efforts by countries hostile to the US. They are using such orders to influence social media so as to try and make Trump unpopular in much of the US and in the rest of the world. The toxic narrative about Trump which has been artificially created in the disinformation labs of a superpower hostile to the US may be termed Trumphobia, and has been germinating over years since 2017.

Ever since he won the US Presidency in 2016, Donald Trump has been the target of a campaign to portray him in the least favourable manner. During one of the debates that Hillary Clinton had during the contest with Trump, she called him a “Russian agent”, an outrageous smear that took aback the Republican nominee for the Presidency who was opposing her bid to be the second Clinton and the first lady to get elected as the President of the US. Her only basis for such a claim were a bunch of online posts making false allegations, many that were by groups subsequently outed as trolls for hire. The Clinton campaign believed that Russiagate would destroy any chance that Trump would win, only to discover to their shock that he bested Hillary on 6 November 2016, all the barbs thrown in his direction notwithstanding. Once he was sworn in, the abuse grew shriller and more outlandish rather than losing traction. Trumphobia was sought to be made mainstream, a fear of the 45th President of the US designed to make not just US citizens but the rest of the world anxious about prospects for the US and the world. These were indeed upended in 2020, not by Trump but by a virus that was created in a laboratory in Wuhan, Covid-19.
From the start in Wuhan in 2019 to its spread across the world of the pandemic in 2020, Trump called it the China Virus, a term that angered the Chinese Communist Party as well as those researchers in the US and elsewhere who had contributed to its development, including by funding some of the research. Although Anthony Fauci has been pardoned, there are others down the chain of command who were at the National Institute of Health and elsewhere who could be questioned on what actually happened, so that the truth finally emerges from the shadows into which those complicit in the Wuhan Institute of Virology and its creation, the Covid-19 virus had put it. False reports on origin have peddled since the pandemic became public knowledge. National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and a revamped NIH is certain to seek to uncover the truth about a virus that caused so much pain across the world. Key diplomatic and national security picks of the Trump administration such as Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz are fully aware not just of the hostility of the CCP to the US but the way in which elements linked to the CCP have infiltrated into both US official as well as civil society in a pervasive manner. To remove such elements and prevent them from doing further harm, President Trump will need bigger majorities in the US House of Representatives and the Senate, rather than have the present strength reduced such that Republicans become a minority in both the House and Senate. He lost to Joe Biden in 2020 because he had lost the moderate middle, and he won in 2024 because enough such voters preferred him over Kamala Harris, who in the election made the error committed by Trump in 2016 by concentrating on the base rather than more vigorously attracting unattached voters. Trump needs to keep the 2026 midterms in mind while framing policies for the US, if his efforts at transformation of the US, indeed a revival of the earlier élan, is to be actualised.