For sure I have learned a lesson or two about Donald J. Trump, which is that never — not ever — believe he is finished when the whole rest of the world is saying as much.

He was supposed to have been done during the 2016 presidential campaign after a number of ghastly personal performances. He managed to pull off the biggest political fluke in U.S. history by scoring enough Electoral College votes while losing the popular vote by 3 million ballots to Hillary Clinton.

He lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden but has sown enough doubt about the integrity of our electoral system to cast a pall over it that lasts to this day.

Trump won’t be on the ballot in 2028 and this coming November we’ll have the midterm election. Control of Congress is at stake. The odds favor a Democratic takeover he House of Representatives. The odds of a Democratic coup in the Senate are longer, but still doable. Trump won’t be on the 2026 ballot, either.

Make no mistake that this charlatan, this election denier in chief, this ghastly pretender to the presidency is pulling out all the stops to deny Democrats the victory they deserve and are expecting. He’s seeking to nationalize the midterm, which I have noted already in an earlier blog post is an impossibility. However, it is a mistake to dismiss this moron’s ability to make it so.

That could result in the House flipping far fewer seats to the Democratic column. And it could mean the GOP keeps control of the Senate. Many of us want the Democrats to win the day in contests for both congressional chambers. I say that, though, knowing full well that Trump’s ability to dodge political freight trains is nothing to dismiss.

That’s what makes him so damn dangerous.

Beware, y’all.