Anyone telling you that capitulation to Trump and the narrowest House majority in a century was the route to take after the election is a person who has long proven themselves to be an unserious person whose opinion is worth the pixel it’s written on, but we get to live this cycle again. All those Democrats who acted like an election where everyone told them to go fuck themselves was a Reaganesque landslide that fundamentally shifted the country far to the right can be ignored forever. They knew nothing about politics in the 1980s era their geriatric brains are forever trapped in, and they still know nothing about it. Trump came into office with a thin veneer of popularity, and there are four new polls telling us loud and clear that he is already blowing it.
Especially on the signature issue of the last election, the economy.
But the share of Americans who think the economy is on the wrong track rose to 53% in the latest poll from 43% in the January 24-26 poll.
From CNN/SSRS:
Most adults nationwide, 55%, say that Trump has not paid enough attention to the country’s most important problems and 62% feel he has not gone far enough in trying to reduce the price of everyday goods.
And Washington Post/Ipsos:
On specific areas of responsibility, a majority disapprove of how he is handling the economy (53 percent vs. 45 percent approving), and a similar majority disapprove of how he is managing the federal government (54 percent).
Once you adjust these numbers for the fact that the only people who actually like Trump in majorities are Republicans, those figures get really bleak. The fraidy-cat Democrats who wanted to work with DOGE and Trump and capitulate to a bunch of freaks nominating Matt Gaetz and other Fox News pinheads have defined their legacy by aiding Trump’s agenda these past few weeks, all while they lie to you and never say the words unanimous consent so they can give themselves three-day weekends and get back to their fancy cocktail parties. The Democrats like my home state Senators Michael Bennett and John Hickenlooper who enthusiastically joined on to MAGA this past month should never be respected as authorities in the opposition party ever again, and we should primary every single one of these clueless cowards out of public life forever.
A new line in the sand has been drawn to the left of MAGA. No longer is it the left versus the center. Ideological battles are a luxury that countries with working constitutions have. The divide in the opposition now falls between those willing to fight and the cowardly careerists who don’t have the fortitude or integrity to deal with the fight that has been brought to their doorstep.
And it’s a winnable fight. It’s been obvious that it’s a winnable fight to anyone who could see the coming shitshow where egg prices are going parabolic like they’re a shitcoin. Take notice of which Democrats and other parts of so-called civil society were fighting back before these new polls came out, and which ones will change their tone going forward.
Paramount was ready to shove Trump’s whole boot down every shareholder’s throat a month ago if that’s what it took to make the King happy, but now all of a sudden everyone is remembering that Trump was president before when the unemployment rate was as high as it was during the Great Depression, so Paramount’s corporate executives have apparently found their spines and will fight Trump’s spurious 60 Minutes lawsuit. Republican Congressman Troy Balderson, who represents a +18 Republican district, even said that “Congress has to decide whether or not the Department of Education goes away. Not the president. Not Elon Musk. Congress decides.”
When Elon’s Nazi 4chan zoomer army inevitably stops some critical transitory payment in the Treasury because these ketamine kids aren’t doing anything more complex than typing ctrl + f “trans” on every document and webpage they come across to delete it, and the S&P 500 gaps down five percent the next day, I look forward to the brave souls across corporate America who will pretend they were against all this madness back when they were happily celebrating the coming MAGA dynasty on Inauguration Day.
Take note of who was fighting before this week, they are useful going forward. Everyone late to this party we already lived through for four years is simply proving themselves to be a useful idiot, and at least they can take solace that they are on the non-idiotic side of this battle now, but they need to get in line behind the folks who have been here this whole time. Keep fighting back and pressuring your representatives and tell your Democratic Senator to oppose unanimous consent and grind the Senate to a halt. Trump and Elon are nowhere near as popular as they and the bootlickers inside corporate America and the Democratic Party have made it seem in the last few months, and it will only become more obvious how idiotic all this was as we go forward and things break. We need who was here first to lead us to where we go next.
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