Posted on 09/06/2024 10:10:30 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Donald Trump is stuck.
He is a brutally transactional politician who represents a coalition of ideologues. His instinct is to promise the moon, and he’ll say anything to get a vote — or just to get out of a room. He also knows, however, that he has no choice but to dance with the date that brought him. He can’t abandon the groups, interested parties and constituencies that put him in the White House to execute their agenda — to exercise their will.
The problem comes when most voters don’t want what your partners hope to do with the power they helped you get.
Such is the case for abortion.
Trump represents the movement to outlaw abortion, restrict contraception and severely limit the scope of reproductive health care. Under rules issued by his administration, employers who had a religious or moral objection could refuse to cover birth control for their employees. He appointed hard-line anti-abortion activists to help lead the Department of Health and Human Services and, of course, nominated the justices who voted — with three other Republican members of the Supreme Court — to overturn Roe v. Wade and end the constitutional right to an abortion.
All of this, especially the end of Roe, is deeply unpopular, and Trump knows it. This is why he has tried the two-step of celebrating his appointments to the court but distancing himself from the consequences, both practical and political, of his anti-abortion accomplishments. Even the most gifted rhetoricians would struggle to sell this to the public. That, obviously, is not Trump. Unsurprisingly, he has floundered.
When asked about Roe during his debate with President Biden, Trump said, falsely, that “everybody wanted to get it back to the states.” He said that...”
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LOL!
Projection, thy name is democrat!
The fact that the left is pushing abortion nonstop is quite indicative of their fear that they are going to lose.
They have nothing positive to offer. Nothing. The left promises the moon and stars, yet ask black people how that’s worked out for them over the years.
The NY Times is EXTREMELY out of touch with real America. It’s laughable what they think is the truth.
Ha ha. This is from the newspaper that covered up Stalin’s genocide in Ukraine.
No, Jamelle, you and the NYT’s are stuck on a derailed train.
> He is a brutally transactional politician who represents a coalition of ideologues. <
I miss the days when a news source just reported the news. In that one sentence above the author managed to insert three rather extreme personal opinions.
But hey, it’s the New York Times. So I shouldn’t be a bit surprised.
Thanks for info.
Not surprised at all. Fits the pattern of the NYT.
“Promise the moon’
I think the author is confusing Trump with every other Democrat candidate. The Democrat party is not homogeneous. It is made up of many small special interest groups who often have conflicting goals. This does not bother Democrats because they never intend to do anything other then advance their own socialist goals.
The NYT is a foreign-owned newspaper, just like the Gannett rags.
I remember a certain Presidential candidate promising to cure cancer.
Ny Times is “stuck” on stoopid
This is even more moronic than the usual Times slime.
As soon as I saw the headline I looked at the source, laughed, and moved on.
“ He is a brutally transactional politician…”
Leftist jargon.
Most people, including me, don’t even know what that’s supposed to mean.
“politician who represents a coalition of ideologues”
That’s some grade a projection there. How many ethinic and identity groups are democrats juggling at any one moment?
What a bunch of Bouie hooey!
“His instinct is to promise the moon, and he’ll say anything to get a vote...”
I am so glad Kamala doesn’t pander like that. LOL.
Hey NYTs he's the only president in my lifetime who kept his campaign promises. You'd know that if you were a news organization.
The reason Democrats can make the same promises election-after-election is because they never keep any of them.
Trump kept all of his except the ones the Democrats blocked.
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