Trump On President's Day - Rot, Failure, And Decline
Simon Rosenberg
Morning all. I was going to write something a bit more breezy today, and let Saturday’s post full of videos and links be the bulk of the content, but I was struck today by the tone of the coverage I encountered this morning, and how much of it had a “Trump is batshit crazy and failing”/Emperor has no clothes vibe.
This vibe matters for next week is the State of the Union, and we will be spending the next few weeks assessing the health of the nation and Trump’s second term. Based on my read of the news vibe right now Trump is entering this consequential period in a bad place.
For the truth is Trump’s first year has been a disaster for him politically and electorally, and for the nation more broadly. He has very, very little that the can sell the to public next week that they will want to buy.
Let’s review - the economy has slowed. Inflation has remained too high. The Fed stopped cutting interest rates. For the first time in history we no longer have the highest credit rating in any of the top three credit rating agencies. Consumer confidence has been the lowest in sixty years. Crypto is crashing. Our health care system has been badly damaged. We are losing manufacturing jobs. Our world leading research ecosystem has been under a sustained assault. Trump is the most corrupt politician in our history. He is a 34 times felon, and his time in office has resembled a crime spree far more than an America Presidency. The Epstein coverup is staggering in its immorality and lawlessness, and he has now also clearly failed to contain the extraordinary scandal. The country has rejected mass deportation and his brutal assault on communities across the country. We keep winning and overperforming in elections of all kinds across the country, and are also now likely to win the redistricting war he recklessly, impulsively, initiated. He has alienated our allies, sided with Putin, and is leaving us alone, isolated, and far less safe. He is regularly murdering people on the high seas, and his vaporization of USAID will end up killing tens of millions of the poorest people on Earth, including millions of children. It would be accurate to call him a mass murderer.
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