Reversing Inflation with Republican Constitutionalists, Starting in 2026

President Trump can start reversing inflation, but only if constitutionalist candidates step up and voters make Trump step up.

The parties look set to offer USA voters only two options in 2026: Democrat politicians who are Progressive socialists always, or Republican politicians who follow President Trump always.

Following Trump always is mistaken. Trump signs lots of executive orders that say how he will constitutionally exert executive power, but he then always obeys unconstitutional judicial opinions. Further, he unconstitutionally advances Progressive spending and regulation.

None of the above are what majorities of the USA people want: reversing inflation.

Inflation is driven by spending, which is mostly unconstitutional, and by regulations, which are fully unconstitutional.

Trump isn’t stopping the unconstitutional spending, and doesn’t even consider not enforcing regulations. He isn’t even recommending to congressmen that they slash spending or formally repeal statutes.

Republican majorities aren’t sponsoring bills and forcing votes to slash spending or repeal statutes.

Democrats never will.

Current Republican governance is more of the same spending, lawmaking, and regulating by Progressive congressional majorities and presidents.

Republicans hope to get voters to excuse the spending by offering tax breaks to certain blocs of voters.

This is déjà vu all over again: it’s just like the Covid stimulus checks. Progressives used Covid as a rationalization for massive borrowing and spending. On the first Covid stimulus, Thomas Massie pointed out that each family would on average owe another $60,000 but would receive checks for less than $3,000.

Almost no one currently in office is worth keeping.

Almost every Republican currently in office is supporting most all of Trump’s Progressive spending and tariffs. By their actions and their cheerleading, these Republicans are showing that in practice they are Progressives.

Voters need real alternatives. Democrats aren’t alternatives. Voters need Republican constitutionalists.

Voters need the Republican primaries to feature challenges by constitutionalists of essentially every Republican official who’s up for election—local, state, and national.

In 2026, time will be on constitutionalists’ side. Years of massive money inflation will keep trickling their way into product-price inflation. Voters will need a way out.

In 2028, time won’t be on constitutionalists’ side, if constitutionalists wait until then to run for offices they could run for in 2026. Waiting would give Republican Progressives time to lose in 2026 and then in 2028 use fresh infusions of crony money to fake that they’re constitutionalists.

Below are key actions for constitutionalists to campaign on in 2026 and to then get underway.

Genuine Half-Reciprocal Tariffs

Repeal delegation of tariff-setting power to presidents. Repeal Trump’s tariffs. Debate replacing all current tariffs with tariffs set product-by-product at half the tariffs charged by each other nation’s government on our people’s products.

Substantial Cuts in Total Spending

Pass a single overall-total appropriation that’s 20% lower than the current-year overall-total appropriation. Make the executive use his executive power to allocate line-item budgets. Each year do these same things again.

Repeals of Statutes, Which Also Repeal Regulations

Mostly, repeal each statute that doesn’t pass all of the following six simple pass/fail tests: (1) No misleading parts. (2) Only uses powers enumerated for the national government. (3) No delegation of legislative power. (4) No grabs of executive power. (5) No grabs of judicial power. (6) Not noncritical, complex, or long, and not helping make the total corpus of law incomprehensibly complex or long.

Election/Apportionment Process Upgrades

Require that election results must be readily auditable in real time, and that pools of votes must be untainted:

• Voting must be in person on a single day, except by people who are traveling or disabled. Each voter’s identity must be proven. Each ballot record must include proof of the voter’s identity. Each count record must include the complete ballot record of each vote included in the count.
• Each certifiable sum of count records must only include count records that are complete. Each jurisdiction whose count record is tainted must be excluded from certifiable sums for the balance of that election.

Reapportion immediately based on the best-available current estimates of the population of citizens. The current apportionment is depriving citizens of representation.

Judicial Process Upgrades

Require the following judicial process upgrades: (1) Original work. (2) Separate opinions. (3) Basis for each opinion. (4) Draft opinions published before hearing next case. (5) Outside reviews. (6) Revised opinions finalized before hearing additional case. (7) A single three-judge panel in each court. (8) No chief judge except on presidential impeachment trials. (9) Independent interpretation by every official. (10) Enjoining at most within jurisdictions. (11) Current understandings on all controversies when nominating. (12) Summary impeachments.

Good Moneys

Require the Fed’s people to make the money quantity constant. Or, set the value of the dollar equivalent to a fixed weight of gold at the market price when this goes into effect. Or in states, offer gold warehousing and transaction processing, and also make private companies free to offer either service or both. Also repeal legal tender laws, tax laws, and all other laws that interfere with using 100%-reserve moneys that prevent boom-bust cycles.

Limiting China’s Government People

Unilaterally spell out rules prohibiting each of China government people’s unconventional-warfare actions that are currently recognized. Give these rules force with one sanction: whenever any rule is being broken, all trade with China people—which would strengthen China government people—is prohibited.

Inflation really can be reversed, and quickly.

Once entrepreneurs see that voters are in the process of changing the USA from a Progressive socialist regime to a constitutionalist regime, entrepreneurs will get a head start on building the future.

How much Trump’s future actions will benefit the USA people will depend on how well constitutionalists rise to the occasion to support the Constitution, if they do at all; and then on how well Trump rises to the occasion to protect the Constitution, if he does at all.

Trump can have a fantastic legacy—if constitutionalist candidates step up, and if Trump gets on board.