MAGA is 38% at the absolute most. That ain’t winning general elections. Trump and R’s need the middle to win, but Trump’s failure to lower prices ( although I do understand it’s not all his fault and he can’t magically lower them), Comey comical indictment, FCC nonsense and now birth control Will doom any chance of getting that middle and winning anything of real significance.
I’ll concede my case of TDS, but now his tweets brag about his power to arrest anyone he wants and can take over media content at his will. Insanity .
A well argued and well written article , but I am really puzzled that you supported the war. Why?
I seem to recall that just last year Trump’s bunker bursting bombs destroyed Iran’s nuclear bomb making capabilities, so that can’t be the reason surely? Or perhaps it wasn’t a success after all?
But perhaps it was regime change. How has that gone?
Perhaps you supported his willingness to ‘destroy an entire civilisation’.
Trump has always been a "loose cannon". His narcissistic personality has always been off-putting and that coupled with the wild swings from topic to topis seems to support the criticisms that he is loosing his cognitive stability. I'm not a doctor but I do know that age comes for us all and he is not a young man and is not immune to mental health declines. His "advisors" could be seen as capitalizing on this decline to push some of the more "crazy" policies. Always an intemperate man he seems to be doubling-down ob a host loosing propositions.
He’s not focused enough, even in his rhetoric, on the cost of living.
That issue was only relevant to the extent that he could demagogue it against Biden and gin up votes. It became just a nice-to-have the day after Election Day.
Starting the mid-decade gerrymandering wars was utterly mindless and harmful to the nation in the long run.
To which Trump might reply: OK - what's your point?
Starting the Iran war (which I support) by giving a timeline for it to finish, after years of railing against Obama and Biden for giving deadlines like that, was terrible politics.
His ignorance of history and other cultures no doubt led him to think he could just will an outcome here, especially since that seemed to work in Venezuela. He also railed against Obama for playing golf, not releasing his academic transcripts, pandering, etc.
Allowing Steven Miller and Kristi Noem to impose a 3000-deportations a day quota, taking ICE’s eye off the important ball: focusing on those who have committed serious crimes while in the country. Our federal government then killed two Americans. A tragedy and a massive political loser.
Trump is at heart one thing and one thing only - a vindictive, even sadistic bully. That policy suited him perfectly. The gratification it gave him outweighed any negatives.
The Comey indictment, which surely obtained his permission, will be a loser (but Trump probably just wants Comey’s life to be miserable).
See immediately above. Also - not "obtained his permission" but "followed his directive."
Allowing any Republican to propose taxpayer funding for the ballroom is nuts. He should be telling Lindsey Graham to zip it.
Since he assured us that this would be privately funded, this is yet more evidence that he holds average Americans, including his base, in absolute contempt. I will contribute to his "Arc de Trump" when it is raised to celebrate the paying down of even half of our $40T debt.
Apparently supporting a government bailout of Spirit Airlines (and maybe other low-cost airlines) is nonsense. Even Josh Hawley (the only Republican in the Senate who is worse than Graham) knows it.
He would take a high-profile bankruptcy on his watch as a personal affront. No amount of taxpayer $$ is too much if it forestalls such a thing. Trump will balloon the debt more than any President in history. And, as he likes to say, "By a LOT!!"
Allowing the FCC to threaten ABC’s (eight) television licenses is ridiculous and will lose in public opinion and in court if the gov’t tries to revoke the licenses.
His inability to ignore any slight from anyone is on full display here. This is one of his many monumental weaknesses and personality defects that foreign leaders have exploited (Bibi) and will continue to exploit (Xi, Putin, others?).
And now this: Trump Is Going After Birth Control.
What happened to free IVF (from the self-proclaimed "father of IVF")? And such a policy would make his promised federal support for child care all the more expensive (if he ever had any intention of delivering on that, which of course he doesn't).
None of this should be the least bit surprising to anyone who has watched what he does and ignores what he says. Not even ignore, but recognize that the truth will usually be the direct **opposite** of anything he says. Iran is having a field day with that aspect of Trump these days in fact, causing our delegations to change personnel mid-stream return home mid-flight, because Trump's fantasies, stated out loud, are so easily falsified.
MAGA is 38% at the absolute most. That ain’t winning general elections. Trump and R’s need the middle to win, but Trump’s failure to lower prices ( although I do understand it’s not all his fault and he can’t magically lower them), Comey comical indictment, FCC nonsense and now birth control Will doom any chance of getting that middle and winning anything of real significance.
I’ll concede my case of TDS, but now his tweets brag about his power to arrest anyone he wants and can take over media content at his will. Insanity .
A well argued and well written article , but I am really puzzled that you supported the war. Why?
I seem to recall that just last year Trump’s bunker bursting bombs destroyed Iran’s nuclear bomb making capabilities, so that can’t be the reason surely? Or perhaps it wasn’t a success after all?
But perhaps it was regime change. How has that gone?
Perhaps you supported his willingness to ‘destroy an entire civilisation’.
I remain puzzled.
Trump has always been a "loose cannon". His narcissistic personality has always been off-putting and that coupled with the wild swings from topic to topis seems to support the criticisms that he is loosing his cognitive stability. I'm not a doctor but I do know that age comes for us all and he is not a young man and is not immune to mental health declines. His "advisors" could be seen as capitalizing on this decline to push some of the more "crazy" policies. Always an intemperate man he seems to be doubling-down ob a host loosing propositions.
Here's a bullet-by-bullet observation:
He’s not focused enough, even in his rhetoric, on the cost of living.
That issue was only relevant to the extent that he could demagogue it against Biden and gin up votes. It became just a nice-to-have the day after Election Day.
Starting the mid-decade gerrymandering wars was utterly mindless and harmful to the nation in the long run.
To which Trump might reply: OK - what's your point?
Starting the Iran war (which I support) by giving a timeline for it to finish, after years of railing against Obama and Biden for giving deadlines like that, was terrible politics.
His ignorance of history and other cultures no doubt led him to think he could just will an outcome here, especially since that seemed to work in Venezuela. He also railed against Obama for playing golf, not releasing his academic transcripts, pandering, etc.
Allowing Steven Miller and Kristi Noem to impose a 3000-deportations a day quota, taking ICE’s eye off the important ball: focusing on those who have committed serious crimes while in the country. Our federal government then killed two Americans. A tragedy and a massive political loser.
Trump is at heart one thing and one thing only - a vindictive, even sadistic bully. That policy suited him perfectly. The gratification it gave him outweighed any negatives.
The Comey indictment, which surely obtained his permission, will be a loser (but Trump probably just wants Comey’s life to be miserable).
See immediately above. Also - not "obtained his permission" but "followed his directive."
Allowing any Republican to propose taxpayer funding for the ballroom is nuts. He should be telling Lindsey Graham to zip it.
Since he assured us that this would be privately funded, this is yet more evidence that he holds average Americans, including his base, in absolute contempt. I will contribute to his "Arc de Trump" when it is raised to celebrate the paying down of even half of our $40T debt.
Apparently supporting a government bailout of Spirit Airlines (and maybe other low-cost airlines) is nonsense. Even Josh Hawley (the only Republican in the Senate who is worse than Graham) knows it.
He would take a high-profile bankruptcy on his watch as a personal affront. No amount of taxpayer $$ is too much if it forestalls such a thing. Trump will balloon the debt more than any President in history. And, as he likes to say, "By a LOT!!"
Allowing the FCC to threaten ABC’s (eight) television licenses is ridiculous and will lose in public opinion and in court if the gov’t tries to revoke the licenses.
His inability to ignore any slight from anyone is on full display here. This is one of his many monumental weaknesses and personality defects that foreign leaders have exploited (Bibi) and will continue to exploit (Xi, Putin, others?).
And now this: Trump Is Going After Birth Control.
What happened to free IVF (from the self-proclaimed "father of IVF")? And such a policy would make his promised federal support for child care all the more expensive (if he ever had any intention of delivering on that, which of course he doesn't).
None of this should be the least bit surprising to anyone who has watched what he does and ignores what he says. Not even ignore, but recognize that the truth will usually be the direct **opposite** of anything he says. Iran is having a field day with that aspect of Trump these days in fact, causing our delegations to change personnel mid-stream return home mid-flight, because Trump's fantasies, stated out loud, are so easily falsified.