Donald Trump Is Already Starting to Fail

The New York Times ^ | Nov. 17, 2024, 6:00 a.m. ET | David French

[E. Pluribus Unum]

That was quick.

Donald Trump is planting the seeds of his own political demise. The corrupt, incompetent and extremist men and women he’s appointing to many of the most critical posts in his cabinet are direct threats to the well-being of the country, but they’re also political threats to Trump and to his populist allies.

To understand why, it’s important to remember a cardinal reality about Trump’s political career. He has now won two general elections when he was the only alternative to an unsatisfactory status quo, and he lost the one when he was the unsatisfactory status quo. If he can’t govern well, his populist partisan realignment will come apart before it can truly begin.

One of the most maddening aspects of the 2024 election is the extent to which so many voters viewed Trump as a mostly normal political candidate. MAGA Republicans see Trump as a singular figure, but an immense number of voters thought the talk about Trump was overheated, in both directions.

If you’re like most Americans and don’t follow the news closely, it’s easy to see why you would see Trump in more conventional terms. A Politico analysis of the Trump campaign’s ads showed that “the single most-aired ad from his campaign since the start of October is all about inflation, Medicare and Social Security — arguing that” Kamala Harris “will make seniors already struggling with high prices ‘pay more Social Security taxes,’ while unauthorized’ immigrants receive benefits.”

That is a normal, conventional political message. Trump’s ads attacking Harris’s past support for taxpayer-funded transition surgery for people in prison and immigration detention were also an appeal to the mainstream, an effort to label Harris as extreme.

[faithhopecharity]

the communists and Nazis are freaking out two months before he even takes office

(it is precisely bullsheit poopaganda articles like French’s that caused millions of American voters to turn OFF from the extremist left wingers)

[Huskrrrr]

“We’ve got him this time.” #1021

[LeonardFMason]

Funny. Without FR I wouldn’t know anything about the NYT. I wouldn’t know David French from a bum I stepped over in any Democrat run city.

[mass55th]

I hope all of President Trump’s nominees sue this bastard for calling them “corrupt, incompetent and extremist.”

[ridesthemiles]

PAGING ELON MUSk

PAGING ELON MUSK

PLEASE BUY THE NYT for $2 & CLOSE it all down.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH

[leftcoaster]

Sounds to me like
“The walls are closing in!”

[Democrat = party of treason]

Only liberal morons read this sht excuse for a paper anyway...

[Zathras]

David French?
Please....this fool would be confounded by an unlocked door and a sign saying “knock and enter”

[Titus-Maximus]

Never read the NYT. They already have said that they have go stop Trump and the truth may have to suffer. ‘We are at Munich’ ...

[fireman15]

Hey NYTs!!! These are the type of mentally disturbed people the Biden administration appointed to important positions.

[PerConPat]

Just skimmed the thread...so, forgive any repetition... At any rate, it will be comforting to know we will have a POTUS, come Jan. 20, who is routinely awake after 20:00 EST.

[nicollo]

He’s just a liar.

[Texas Fossil]

Just read tonight, NYT profits are down 95.7%.

NYT are laying off many employees.

Titanic going down?

I have NO Sympathy for Owners.

[NorthMountain]

David French opens his mouth, and sewage flows out.

[Sicon]

and he lost the one when he was the unsatisfactory status quo

He wasn’t, and he didn’t.

[hellinahandcart]

Trying to read David French is like trying to read with a loose eyelash under my eyelid. It’s just damned irritating.

[Colorado Doug]

Oh come on now. The handmaidens dresses for American women haven’t even arrived yet. Sheesh!

[hellinahandcart]

Come read this dreck.

[databoss]

Pretty sure he won three elections when we figure out who and how they cheated

[wardaddy]

French is a paid troll
Irrelevant