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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Best to ignore him — or it, since it could be a bot.
Classic left-wing media desperately trying to imprint a narrative.

Jonathan Lemire is an American political correspondent. He is currently co-host of Morning Joe on MS NOW and a staff writer at The Atlantic. He was formerly the White House bureau chief at Politico and a White House correspondent at The Associated Press.
Why even post this crap?
Broken or not, Trump needs to quit foreign policy and focus ENTIRELY on the midterms and ending vote cheating. He has many great issues, but he needs to communicate them to the voters. The best communicators will win.
At this point, it’s all about midterms. We’re going to hear nothing but this kind of ‘sky is falling’ garbage.
Painting the narrative is what they do. Only fools fall for it.
Yep. Left wing wishful thinking. Trump and Republicans have a very good record. Actively sold, it 2026 should be a good mid term for Trump.
Trump 2.0 will be fine also, if he keeps his promises...
...AND if the CCP/Deep State doesn't deliberately wreck the economy again before the mid-terms.
And the TDS is very strong on Free Republic
The usual suspects on this Freeper board will applaud this article
Really?? Last report was something like 80% approval.
They have been so far.
But we need to stop fighting half a battle.
We need to find and run MAGA candidates in every primary, for every election,
And vote for MAGA regardless of the letter after the name.
True.
This is the Psyop being used now by all the left wing wackos to try to convince people that Trump is done. They are wrong, bigly!
You are willing to support the democrats over the maga party?
I don’t anticipate supporting the democratic party myself.
How about getting those hostages released and ending the war in Gaza?
More steam! STAT!!!!!
Not at GOP are MAGA...
Too many people on this site have an Amazon Prime mentality..they want it all now!
It took Reagan most of his first term to turn the ship around. People have a poor remembrance of history.
Ha Ha
Just kidding
Dream on Atlantic.
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