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.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I love the smell of David French's hysteria in the morning.

[17th Miss Regt]

Surrender, French!

[bobcat62]

He won 3 elections, but who’s counting?

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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.

Does David even listen to himself?

[CatOwner]

They are going to push this narrative hard, along with blaming everything negative in the country on Trump, in the hopes of thwarting his agenda and flipping Congress in 2026. It is going to take every ounce of self-control to not go postal on the left.

[italianquaker]

Damn guess Trump cant win reelection again lol

[joshua c]

nyt wet dreams in print

[Tai_Chung]

He’s only the 2nd President to be elected 3 times.

[clee1]

Blow it out your arse, Frenchie!

[kiryandil]

David “Frenching Obama’s Bung” French weighs in.

[Pearfect]

NYT ( NOT YOUR TRUTH )

[ac-rep]

Well, if only the left gets to define what is extreme, then they make an argument of always being right

[enumerated]

David French - what a sorry loser.

[milagro]

As long as he keeps talking to the heart-shaped mirror in his pink bathroom he will!

[Raycpa]

Keep failing please.

[rktman]

Skered much?

[Sarah Barracuda]

awwwwwwwwwwwwwww the New York Slimes doesn’t like Trump’s picks..aint that a damn pity, I know Im sitting here crying in my cheerios over this LOL LOL LOL..hey schmuck, get used to it, these picks are gonna be confirmed so kiss my ass

[Mark17]

👍

[Rummyfan]

David French?! Eff off you moron!

[clearcarbon]

"Donald Trump Is Already Starting to Fail"