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Donald Trump’s Presidency Is in Free Fall (newrepublic.com)

submitted 1 week ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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Consider three of the biggest developments in our politics right now: We just learned that the economy lost 92,000 jobs in February, a capstone to a terrible year in terms of job creation. President Trump has fired widely despised Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, a key architect of his mass deportations. And reports are indicating that the killing of scores of Iranian schoolchildren might have been the handiwork of the United States.

What links all these things? In addition to the massive human toll they’re inflicting, they suggest that Trump is about to pull off a unique trifecta. He is squandering the advantage he and Republicans have enjoyed in recent years on three major GOP-friendly issues: The economy, immigration, and national security.

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[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Not to mention the fact the child rapist is referred to more than 30,000 times in just the released Epstein files, and more than a million times in the rest of them.

Maggots love the fact that one of their own is in the White House, the rest of us not so much.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's bipartisan. The more dangerous sociopaths are those more skilled at masking. MLK Jr called it decades ago.

Eta: https://www.healthyplace.com/personality-disorders/sociopath/high-functioning-sociopaths-and-the-damage-they-cause

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

Saying it's bipartisan isn't wrong, but it's a little like saying "Black people are racist against black people, too."

Like, sure. That can be true. But is the real problem not the white supremacists?

This comparison isn't a stretch... In fact, they're the same picture. The GOP is a cancer. This said, the democrats as they stand today are not a solution to the entire mess here. We need minority democrats like Bernie and AOC, or something else entirely.