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.
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The TDS is very strong in some.
Well then, just lay down in the road.
Its as if they want to see Republicans in gulags.
Too many bong hit from The Atlantic staff. Or is it their mushrooms that caused hallucinations?
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.
Nah just good ol fashioned gaslighting
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...
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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.
Oh, we have those same TDS douchebags on Free Republic, no doubt.
Never Trumpers are going to be Never Trumpers.
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?
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.
Desperation.
Jonathan Lemire, just another liberal assclown with a keyboard and an overactive imagination.
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.
That was 2017. But it’s also 2025.
“””””Vote MAGA, not party.””””
Aren’t all maga candidates GOP?
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