What has changed is the urgency. He said it himself at the Turning Point rally this week, almost accidentally. He knows the historical pattern, that the president's party typically loses ground in midterm elections. He said he can't figure out why. He can. He just can't say it out loud. So instead he is doing what he has always done when the ground shifts under him. He is pointing downward harder, faster, and at a younger audience that hasn't yet learned to check where the finger is actually aimed.