I Want A Turn
“The Democratic Party’s problems remain very real, but for the moment, Trump and the GOP have more serious ones. The most glaring one is Trump’s deep personal unpopularity. In the current polarized and dyspeptic political environment, all presidents seem to be unpopular, but Trump is in a different league. A CNN poll released last week measured Trump at 34 percent support, matching the low he reached in that poll following the January 6 insurrection. Still, that was better than his showing in the AP-NORC survey, which found his approval at 33 percent, just one point above a 2017 low. Quinnipiac University found Trump at 32 percent, the lowest ever in that poll.” The Atlantic (Gift Article): Americans Are Turning on Trump.
+ Those are the challenges Trump faces at home. There are other ones abroad. WaPo (Gift Article): Trump keeps making threats. The world has stopped flinching. “The flabbergasting threats keep piling up — to weaponize trade, annex Canada, seize Greenland, abandon NATO, annihilate Iran — but the alarm bells have gone quiet.”
+ But don’t be fooled. Trump’s support is still ironclad among one very important constituency. Elected GOP officials. They still seem willing to back just about anything Trump wants — from a failing war with no strategy to this: Todd Blanche advances toward confirmation.
+ “This is the same Justice Department that has made so many misrepresentations and false statements in court over the last year and a half that judges are openly questioning whether its lawyers can be trusted. Despite all of that, Todd Blanche’s word is good enough for the senator whom Trump all but ousted by endorsing his Republican primary opponent.” Joyce Vance: The $1.776b Slush Fund Isn’t As Dead as Senators Cornyn and Tillis Seem to Be Willing to Believe. We know the deal is a joke. And we knew they’d agree to it anyway. As I wrote yesterday, the writing was on the wall, as surely as the seashells were arranged on the beach.
+ Aside from weaponization and the enablement of Trump’s lawlessness, what can we expect from Blanche’s tenure? For one thing… Blanche Privately Vows to Take Down Abortion Rights Next. “We don’t have complete victory yet, but we will have victory, and victory will be soon, and it will be permanent. If states have said, ‘We are going to protect the unborn and we’re going to protect every life from the moment of conception,’ we’re putting practices and policies in place so that other states and other organizations can’t attack that. They can’t do things like they’re doing with mailing in mail-order drugs.”
