Adam Serwer: “Faced with flagging numbers over an unpopular and unnecessary war in Iran, inflation exacerbated by tariffs, lawless immigration enforcement, and corruption, Republicans have gone back to basics for their closing message: stoking hatred against minority groups.”“The Michigan Senate campaign between Republican Mike Rogers and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed has been particularly ugly. Rogers has accused El-Sayed—without any evidence—of being ‘bought off by the Muslim Brotherhood.’ At a recent rally, J. D. Vance said El-Sayed harbored ‘anti-white racial hate,’ and President Trump called him a ‘jihadist’ who would need to go through a ‘metal detector’ to enter the Senate. The only time in recent memory that the Senate was subject to political violence, it is worth noting, is when Trump himself incited an attack on it.”