Kevin Nash doesn’t think the upcoming midterm elections are going to magically fix everything wrong with America. The WWE Hall of Famer believes the country’s problems have gotten so deep that changing who controls Congress would be more like putting fresh oil into a car with half the engine already blown apart.
Speaking on his Kliq This podcast, Nash got into the state of American politics while discussing the November 2026 midterms. Those elections will determine all 435 House seats and roughly one-third of the Senate, potentially changing which party controls either chamber of Congress.
The conversation turned to whether frustrated voters could use the midterms to change the direction of the country. Nash wasn’t exactly convinced that would be enough, and he came up with one hell of an automotive analogy to explain why.
“But to me, the midterms are like we’ve thrown two rods, a piston’s gone, the drivetrain’s f****** up, and we’re hoping that at the midterms we get an oil change. Like, the amount of damage—”
Basically, Nash thinks America needs a hell of a lot more than an oil change. He then made it clear that he wasn’t interested in putting everything on one political party either. Nash argued that Democrats have contributed to the problem as well, pointing specifically to gerrymandering and what he sees as an endless cycle of both sides trying to screw each other whenever they get the opportunity.
“It’s going to take—and the thing is, instead of—and the Democrats are just as f***** guilty, if not more so in some cases. It’s just like the gerrymandering that went on in Virginia.
I mean, it’s like a tit-for-tat, and everybody’s like, ‘Haha, got you. Haha, I got you.’ And it just continually puts this divide between our country.
Like, even though I don’t agree with where we’re at in this war, when it absolutely, 100% comes down to it, I back my president because I have to. I have to back my president because he’s in charge of the military.
And so it’s like, I hope every day. I know that there’s generals around him, but there’s generals that are being let go.”
Nash’s concern went beyond elections and partisan fighting. The conversation eventually moved into military leadership and the broader state of global affairs, with Nash admitting that things feel much closer and more unsettling to him now than during other major conflicts he has lived through.
“I’ve just been around a long f****** time, man. I’ve just never seen things this f****** up. Like Vietnam, man. Vietnam wasn’t in our backyard. It just didn’t feel that close. I wasn’t scared, man. I’m worried about every human being on this planet.”
Nash has never exactly been shy about getting political, but this wasn’t really him arguing that one election result or one party has all the answers. At this point, he sounds far more concerned about how difficult it would be to undo years of division once treating politics like a never-ending revenge game becomes the norm.
Do you think Kevin Nash’s busted-car analogy accurately captures how divided American politics has become, or is he being too pessimistic about what the midterms can actually change? Let us know what you think in the comments.
