Trumpism's Namesake Is The Reason The 'Ideology' Will End Up On The Trash Heap Of History
A couple of the Sunday shows saw fit to mention a new NBC/Wall St. Journal poll which shows the president's popularity rising to 41%. The belief is that Republicans are 'coming home' as a response to the imminent passage of the tax bill and the related 'evidence' that Trump can get something done.
Happy Days Are Here Again for Trumplandia!
Uh, not so much. What will go wrong as the administration tries to regain it's footing, and it's prestige?
Donald Trump will. EVERYONE knows by now that Trump cannot leave well enough alone, not even for a day or two. He has to "win". In his mind winning involves humiliating those who dare to oppose him.
This worked for him on the campaign trail which is an adversarial process. It doesn't work when you are in office and supposed to be a leader for everyone, not just your aggrieved political base.
The recent elections in Virginia and Alabama show us that the "resistance" to Trumpism is real, long lasting, and growing. Most Americans, do not like, trust, or respect Donald Trump. The Republicans are facing a negative wave in next year's midterm congressional elections, which could cost them control of Congress, and cost Trump any chance to effect his legislative agenda anytime in his first term.
The goal of the Republicans and the administration should be to spend the next 6-8 months making Trump seem more reasonable, more grounded in reality, less prone to attacking everyone who disagrees with him, less prone to constant lying.
What are the chances of achieving those goals? "Slim" has left the building.
Recent news reports indicate that Trump is as isolated as ever, taking his cues from Fox News, and still knee deep in conspiracy theories about the FBI and the intelligence community. There is simply no chance that Trump can behave and speak in a way that will bring his popularity up to the level to avoid a disaster, (for him and the Republicans) in the midterms. Trump had a chance, right after the inauguration to shift course and become a president for all the people, and he utterly refused to do so. Now his opposition is set in stone, and he doesn't have the psychological capacity to understand that and mitigate the damage going forward.
It is much more likely that things will get worse for him, and he will continue to lash out, and things will get worse, and on and on until he gets opposed in the GOP 2020 presidential primaries.
A controversial tax bill will not save him.
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Trump has revealed too much for too long that indicates beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is unfit for office.
His 35% of loyal base does not agree, but Trump's recurring behavior alienating everyone else will make them irrelevant.
"Those who do not hang together against Trumpism will surely hang individually" - Paraphrasing Ben Franklin...
Black, and young, and other minority voters have had enough of Trump. The question has always been would they come out and vote. It now appears that they will, with relish.
Were Trump a different sort of person than he is, he could stop creating lies and controversy every day and maybe mitigate the opposition by next November. But Trump is not a different sort of person. To the contrary, he is delusional.
It is too bad the EC didn't recognize that when they cast their votes.
41% and the GOPERS are coming home? Really? Coming home to what?
1937-38 Nazi Germany was referred to as the 'Happy Times.' The time when the Nazi Party enjoyed its highest popularity ( which was 43% ) of the populace. Unfortunately, or fortunately, history revealed that the 'Happy Times' were short lived.
When an economy purposely tilts the 'collective wealth' of that economy into the control of a select small minority, economic history has shown that the economy will not sustain itself and will collapse.