Posted on 02/28/2017 8:55:46 AM PST by Cheerio
An inability to find common ground could test the president’s agenda
It was possible, not so long ago, to imagine Donald Trump to be such an unconventional figure that he could bust apart traditional partisan alliances and use his populist approach to create new kinds of political coalitions.
As President Trump gets set to appear before a joint session of Congress for the first time Tuesday night, that possibility seems a long way off.
Instead, just over a month into his term, Mr. Trump stands as an exceptionally polarizing figure. He inspires intense support among his admirers and equally intense animosity among his detractors, with remarkably few Americans standing in the middle without a strong view. Everybody appears to have an opinion about Donald Trump, and those opinions already appear locked in.
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conservatives’
They’re pissed because they realize they have no Electoral Power now and there’s not a damn thing they can do about that now since Trump is going to stop this Obama sh!t of increasing the Democrat voter pool with illegal aliens and unvetted MUSLIM so-called ‘refugees.’ That trick is over and they don’t like it one damn bit.
He’s given the GOP in Congress every opportunity to get done everything they “ promised” to get elected
There wouldn’t be any significant polarization if the GOP congress just carried out the people’s will - just outvoted obstructionist democrats
And if they had the back of the POTUS who gave them the power to do it
’I think he’s gonna ask for some heads of Uniparty RINOs’
It may be shortsighted, and I do understand that McConnell, McCain, Graham, etc., are problems, but right now I’d settle for being rid of Ryan. He’s a worse snake in the grass than the very worst of the Democrats. Get rid of him, and just watch things turn around.
The gloBULLists at WSJ are mad that Mr. Trump won’t back down on his economic nationalist agenda.
Seib is one of the main reasons I gave up my longtime subscription to the WSJ. Seib is a hardcore leftist who is pretty talented at covering his tracks in his article. Almost every single article by this guy is slanted hard to the left. He either cherry-picks data or facts, or he outright editorializes.
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That is how I read it too.
The WSJ is trying to strong-arm Trump into returning to the GOP-e.
I think the only way McConnell is gonna go down is with a scandal. Live boy/dead girl.
Probably true. McConnell is wily, and deeply burrowed in (like a tick). Trump seemed to throw in that towel when he hired McConnell’s wife.
Bad as McConnell is, Ryan is worse. The instant Trump’s ‘locker room,’ tape came out, Ryan led the charge of GOPers trying to get Trump to quit. Ryan will not change his sleezy, duplicitous ways; he just needs to be gone.
Very Fake Analysis from WSJ
Sorry but it's never been possible to imagine that. There is such a divide between the parties as to make it impossible, and Trump is a polarizing figure in his own right. I was never under any illusions that Trump could work across the aisle.
I have always been concerned with the Republicans working with Trump and not impeding his agenda, and I would say those concerns have proven to be well founded.
Note to FL senators and representatives in DC: Give president Trump trouble, and we will see you at the ballot box.
En masse. You will be defeated.
5.56mm
More evidence of journalism’s decline at the Wall Street Urinal. Sad!
Yeah, he still isn’t close to the polarization of President Obama. A man so polarizing that he barely could get his own party to vote for things, much less anybody from the other party, even the liberal wing of the other party.
This despite their reaching out to him, unlike the democrats now who have simply decided that their “jobs” are no longer to advance the country, but rather to try to protect their minority status and power.
It will be repeated by all of the MSM until the next word of the day is issued.
You nailed it.
Obama was polarizing. But since it was us he was freezing out, the media swooning was all that mattered and we were ignored. These people are doing the same thing they did during Reagan’s term.
About time. What has the current group accomplished? Just taken America down the disaster road.
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