Ha, what a crock, Trump is the decay personified

 

Trump Saw a Decaying America and Chose To Fight It

James Thorne, RealClearPolitics

Instead of sovereignty we get imperial intimidation and alienation of our friends, servile acquiescence to the despotism of our foes, and two wars fought to a stalemate in the Middle East in just fourteen months. 

 

Instead of production we get sub-post war GDP, sub-50% level full time employment, and a sub-2.1% replacement fertility rate of 1.57%.

 

Instead of fiscal discipline we get $2.3 trillion new total public debt in just the first year.

 

And instead of strategic clarity we get Ukraine blamed for its own invasion. 

Trump cuts off his nose in the primaries to spite his face

  Trump’s primary push could leave him with short-term problem in Congress 

... the defeated or retiring incumbents he’s targeted remain in office until the end of their terms.  

Those lawmakers, who no longer face voters and have little political incentive to fall in line, could make things difficult for Trump and GOP leaders as they feel more emboldened to push back against key partisan legislation. In a narrowly divided Congress, even a handful of GOP defections can derail a party-line bill. ...

You betcha.

 

Bill Cassidy in the Senate is already a problem for Trump post-defeat.

So is defeated Thomas Massie in the House.

Still in the crosshairs:

Sen. John Cornyn, Rep. Lauren Boebert, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick.

Already alienated and retiring:

Sen. Thom Tillis, Rep. Don Bacon. 

Expect little to pass easily before November under these new intra-GOP adversarial circumstances, and even less after a Blue Wave.

 

 

Everybody's asking . . .

  How low can Trump’s poll numbers go? 

... The president’s average approval rating still hasn’t reached its lowest mark ever recorded. He fell to just above 37 percent in RealClearPolitics’s average in December 2017. ... 

You wake up in the morning and yep, Trump has sunk to new record lows in the polling average overnight

 Disapproval is at a new high 58.5% in the average.

Approval is at a new low 39.4% in the average.

Real Clear Politics polling average:

 

 

 

It's amazing that the answer of Donald J. Trump and now J. D. Vance to Senator John Cornyn of Texas is a crook

 

 

... Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said she couldn’t understand Trump’s thinking, given that Paxton was charged with felony securities fraud and faced a lengthy prison sentence that he managed to avoid by reaching a deal with prosecutors to pay nearly $300,000 in restitution and complete 100 hours of community service.

“I don’t understand. He is an ethically challenged individual,” Collins said of Trump’s support of Paxton, who was charged of defrauding investors in a Dallas-area tech startup. The charges were later dropped after he agreed to a pretrial diversion program. ...

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