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The Trump Steamroller Is Broken
The Atlantic ^ | 11/19/25 | Jonathan Lemire

Posted on 11/24/2025 1:45:33 PM PST by DallasBiff

Infighting. Bad polls. Party divisions. Midterm fears. It’s all back.

President Donald Trump’s administration has been embroiled in scandal and sloppiness. His own party has defied his political pressure. His senior staff has been beset by infighting. He has sparred with reporters and offered over-the-top praise to an authoritarian with a dire human-rights record. A signature hard-line immigration policy has polled poorly. And Republicans have begun to brace themselves for a disastrous midterm election.

That was 2017. But it’s also 2025.

Ten months into the president’s second term, Trump 2.0 is for the first time starting to resemble the chaotic original. And that new sense of political weakness in the president has not just emboldened Democrats who have been despondent for much of the past year. It’s also begun to give Republicans a permission structure for pushing back against Trump and jockeying for power with an eye to the elections ahead.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


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KEYWORDS: democratpropaganda; democrats; fakenews; liberalmedia; trump

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I know why post something from The Atlantic(a liberal rag), but it shows to me how some take this like scripture.

The TDS is very strong in some.

1 posted on 11/24/2025 1:45:33 PM PST by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff
The Trump Steamroller Is Broken

Well then, just lay down in the road.

2 posted on 11/24/2025 1:48:09 PM PST by xone ( )
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To: DallasBiff

Its as if they want to see Republicans in gulags.


3 posted on 11/24/2025 1:49:53 PM PST by Bayard
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To: DallasBiff

Too many bong hit from The Atlantic staff. Or is it their mushrooms that caused hallucinations?


4 posted on 11/24/2025 1:50:23 PM PST by Obadiah
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To: DallasBiff

They are panicking because the Pelousy/Schumer, small coastal elites are too old, and the up-and-coming democRATS/DemoKKKrats no longer hide their HATRED for everything good and right.


5 posted on 11/24/2025 1:51:13 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try )
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To: Obadiah

Nah just good ol fashioned gaslighting


6 posted on 11/24/2025 1:52:46 PM PST by MrRelevant
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To: DallasBiff

The FR types still believe in Unicorns and magic fairy dust so don’t disturb them... Once the GOP screws the Trump voters it will be Armageddon...


7 posted on 11/24/2025 1:54:29 PM PST by dpetty121263
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To: xone

👍😁👍


8 posted on 11/24/2025 1:54:40 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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To: DallasBiff

TDS is here at FR now too, people chomping at the bit to be done with Trump.

People you don’t want in your foxhole.


9 posted on 11/24/2025 1:55:28 PM PST by right way right (“May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: DallasBiff

Oh, we have those same TDS douchebags on Free Republic, no doubt.


10 posted on 11/24/2025 1:55:58 PM PST by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: dpetty121263
The FR types still believe in Unicorns and magic fairy dust so don’t disturb them... Once the GOP screws the Trump voters it will be Armageddon...

Freepers beware!

This poster is a known Never-Trumper Troll whose sole purpose is to divide and conquer MAGA!

11 posted on 11/24/2025 1:56:07 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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To: right way right

Never Trumpers are going to be Never Trumpers.


12 posted on 11/24/2025 1:57:34 PM PST by sipow
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To: DallasBiff

More wishful thinking. Just like the thousands of hours they wasted
on the Puerto Rico crap before the election.

Why do they embrace blind optimism so fervently? Stupidity?


13 posted on 11/24/2025 1:58:39 PM PST by toddausauras (47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 )
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To: dpetty121263

The GOP has already screwed Trump voters.

That’s why people need to forget about letter after the name.

Run MAGA in every primary, for every election.

Vote MAGA, not party.


14 posted on 11/24/2025 1:59:08 PM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )
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To: toddausauras

Desperation.


15 posted on 11/24/2025 1:59:50 PM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )
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To: DallasBiff

Jonathan Lemire, just another liberal assclown with a keyboard and an overactive imagination.


16 posted on 11/24/2025 2:01:19 PM PST by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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17 posted on 11/24/2025 2:01:20 PM PST by Bikkuri
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To: DallasBiff

This article is wish-casting by liberals who are desperate to believe that their side is finally able to fight back and defeat Trump after 10 months of getting their a__es kicked every day. The shutdown did not change the momentum. The three off year elections were disappointing but were in blue states and not any indication of a wave. There have been some self-inflicted problems on the Trump / GOP side but so what? There always are. Come back in 6 months and we can talk about whether the momentum is gone.


18 posted on 11/24/2025 2:04:58 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: DallasBiff
I think I see the pattern that indicates what the next Rat Message will be.

That was 2017. But it’s also 2025.

19 posted on 11/24/2025 2:07:47 PM PST by Raycpa
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To: mewzilla

“””””Vote MAGA, not party.””””

Aren’t all maga candidates GOP?


20 posted on 11/24/2025 2:07:51 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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