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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 ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: concern; concerntroll; democratpropaganda; democrats; fakenews; gaslighting; liberalmedia; media; multiplenicks; randpaulsucks; randspam; randstanding; trump

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To: toddausauras

Yeah. My goodness. All the panty wadded pearl clutchers were screaming at a PR comedian claiming the election was lost.


41 posted on 11/24/2025 3:07:37 PM PST by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: packrat35

But all maga are GOP, do you think you will be supporting democrats?


42 posted on 11/24/2025 3:07:42 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: DallasBiff

The Tennessee 7 race on December 2nd where Trump won the district by 22 points will definitely give an idea how things are going. It’s a red state with a deep red district. There will not be the “well it’s a blue state or blue city” to fall back on.


43 posted on 11/24/2025 3:48:26 PM PST by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Our test is December 2nd. Tennessee 7 is deep red with a huge trump endorsed candidate running. Trump got 22 points over Kamala. That race will tell a lot.


44 posted on 11/24/2025 3:52:04 PM PST by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: brookwood

How about it? Didn’t know that was our war. The war in Gaza will end when Hamas is destroyed since they aren’t going to quit. The IDF’s job.


45 posted on 11/24/2025 3:52:14 PM PST by xone ( )
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To: DallasBiff

This is probably the first acknowledgment that he had a steamroller.


46 posted on 11/24/2025 4:08:00 PM PST by ChessExpert (Infidels of the world unite against the evil that is Islam.)
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To: DallasBiff

What scandal, pray tell?


47 posted on 11/24/2025 4:09:38 PM PST by Trump_Triumphant (“They recognized Him in the breaking of the Bread”.)
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To: DallasBiff

The new meme. Pile on.


48 posted on 11/24/2025 4:18:58 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder
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To: DallasBiff

Gee. Didn’t they just reopen government on his terms?


49 posted on 11/24/2025 4:21:00 PM PST by alternatives?
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To: DallasBiff

The original Atlantic is an ocean
This Atlantic is an ocean of shit


50 posted on 11/24/2025 4:32:39 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: DallasBiff

The MSM just lied to they country and saw it easily work. They got millio s to believe that Trump, himself, removed Nurses from the official list of professional degrees. Only problem is that nurses were NEVER ON THAT LIST. I do not care how or why but the fact is they easily got many to fall for the easily disproved lie. Here, they try the same thing and go with false reporting pushing full on fiction as if accepted gospel when in reality they hope to get you to fall for I


51 posted on 11/24/2025 4:35:09 PM PST by ICE-FLYER (God bless and keep the United States of America)
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To: DallasBiff

Trump praises Mamdani.
Trump promises to do something about the Zerocare subsidies, giving the dumbles a win for nothing!
AYFKM?

Couple the absolute unaffordability of a lot of groceries and everyday purchases, it’s going to bode ill for 2026.

All the Pollyanna happy talk doesn’t change it.

Get tough, stay tough and keep winning!


52 posted on 11/24/2025 4:48:00 PM PST by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: ansel12

he didn’t say or imply that, dumbA


53 posted on 11/24/2025 4:57:40 PM PST by A strike (ID lanyards are for cucks)
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To: A strike

What do you think regardless of their party means?


54 posted on 11/24/2025 5:00:04 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: SoConPubbie

Why are you mad at me for pointing out the GOP is selling you out? Maybe you are not smart enough to know that?


55 posted on 11/24/2025 5:10:20 PM PST by dpetty121263
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To: ansel12

there are three possible letters after the name.

Massie and I can see Fetterman or others in future


56 posted on 11/24/2025 5:20:17 PM PST by A strike (ID lanyards are for cucks)
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To: DallasBiff

The strategy has shifted:

1. “Illegal orders”
2. Baiting with the same
3. Spinning ‘losing momentum’
4. Anti-MAGA propaganda (which we now know is coming from overseas)
5. Spinning splits (MTG, etc.)

...and more/ongoing.

It’s all they’ve got as they flail along trying to gin up support for midterms.

But I could argue that the Trump team and gop don’t need to be giving them more ammo...


57 posted on 11/24/2025 5:22:20 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: DallasBiff

Other articles from The Atlantic:

Epstein returns at the worst time for Trump
The President Is Losing Control of Himself
Why Donald Trump Seems Taken With Zohran Mamdani
Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right?
Why the Comey Prosecution Is Falling Apart
An Anatomy of the MAGA Mind (I have’t read this but I’m sure it’s not ‘good’).
The Conservative Movement’s Intellectual Collapse
Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors

Gee. It almost seems critical of the conservatives...
Huh. I dun’t get it. What does that mean?


58 posted on 11/24/2025 5:27:55 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: A strike

You can see yourself voting democrat?


59 posted on 11/24/2025 5:33:07 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: DallasBiff

Lemire appears on MSLSD.


60 posted on 11/24/2025 5:37:20 PM PST by sauropod
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