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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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To: DallasBiff

!Mas mierda! Caramba!


61 posted on 11/24/2025 6:24:24 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: DallasBiff

the walls are closing in ... again ...


62 posted on 11/24/2025 7:17:29 PM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: right way right
TDS is here at FR now too, people chomping at the bit to be done with Trump.

Mostly trolls from the left.

63 posted on 11/24/2025 8:09:07 PM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
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To: DallasBiff

“....embroiled in scandal and sloppiness.”

Does the article go on to specify?


64 posted on 11/25/2025 12:18:47 AM PST by nikos1121
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