Nicely put, Sree. But two things. First, Trump's approval rating keeps rising. It's now at 53%; that's a higher than the below 49.8% share of the votes he received. Second, and this is so scary, even experts on autocracy, like Ruth Ben Ghiat, believed pre-inauguration that a strong man wouldn't tolerate a #2 who wielded the kind of power Musk does. We are looking at something no one has seen in the past 100s of years of governments. Do the democrats look weak. Certainly. But can obstruction in the house and senate actually do something in the face of Trump's cult of personality coupled with an Trump-allied totalitarian who is slashing through other normalities? It's very 1984-ish out there with Trump/Musk saying, "oh yeah, we can't keep prices down, sorry" and the next day saying, "everyone is getting a tax cut because of the billions we're saving the government." One drives around the country and sees Trump flags flying from houses of the working/lower classes. Trumpers are happy. More than half of our country loves Dear Leader.
Nicely put, Sree. But two things. First, Trump's approval rating keeps rising. It's now at 53%; that's a higher than the below 49.8% share of the votes he received. Second, and this is so scary, even experts on autocracy, like Ruth Ben Ghiat, believed pre-inauguration that a strong man wouldn't tolerate a #2 who wielded the kind of power Musk does. We are looking at something no one has seen in the past 100s of years of governments. Do the democrats look weak. Certainly. But can obstruction in the house and senate actually do something in the face of Trump's cult of personality coupled with an Trump-allied totalitarian who is slashing through other normalities? It's very 1984-ish out there with Trump/Musk saying, "oh yeah, we can't keep prices down, sorry" and the next day saying, "everyone is getting a tax cut because of the billions we're saving the government." One drives around the country and sees Trump flags flying from houses of the working/lower classes. Trumpers are happy. More than half of our country loves Dear Leader.
Nice to start. 4.2 in part two, how about this question What can blue state Democrats do to move red state Republican voters?