As a result of the elections, Trump and the GOP will have control of both houses of congress. So far, Republicans lead 220-213 in the House of Representatives with two races still to be called. Trump has picked three house members – Matt Gaetz, Elise Stefanik, and Mike Waltz – to be part of his administration so special elections will have to be called to replace them but since they represent districts that have been Republican for years, those are not likely to change the balance. Gaetz has already resigned, no doubt to end the congressional ethics inquiry into allegations of his behavior towards underage women and other malfeasances. It is not clear if the report that has been compiled will be released.

Republicans also control the US senate by a margin of 53-47. With the US Supreme Court pretty much serving as a backstop to defend Trump and right wing policies, the Republicans have the ability to do pretty much what they want.

But it also means that they have no excuses for not delivering on Trump’s promises. During the campaign Trump promised the moon, such as immediately deporting tens of millions (his figure) of undocumented immigrants, closing the southern border, ending crime, eliminating inflation, enacting high tariffs on all imports, lowering the prices of everything, ending the war in Ukraine and the turmoil in the Middle East, eliminating the department of education, reducing the federal debt by reducing the size of the federal government by billions (if not trillions) of dollars, attacking the rights of the LGBT community and in particular suppressing the transgender community, further restricting abortion rights, lowering taxes, replacing Obamacare with something better, ending the deaths of birds and whales by windmills, bringing back high water-use dishwashers, toilets, and showers, and who knows what else.

Some of these were always phantom issues that did not really exist except in his own mind and served to rile up his base. Thus after a short period of time he can simply declare that he has solved those problems and the GOP and rightwing media will support him and that will become the new reality.

But other promises require tangible actions that will not be easy. But not to worry! Trump and the GOP have made an art of claiming that white is black and they are not going to be held back from crowing about their success by being contradicted by data and such trivial things as objective reality.