Trump finally feels gravity's unforgiving pull

[coeur_de_lion]

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Trump’s stunning victory created such disorienting shock waves across Washington that neither Democrats nor Republicans understood what the accidental president admitted to me a month after his win.

“The election could have been held 20 different times, but that was probably the one day I would have won,” the president-elect said in December 2016. “Everything came together at once.”

The resulting political horror show produced daily by Trump has left journalists and politicians reeling but has failed to alter a few basic rules of politics:

First, presidents with approval ratings in the low 40s lose their majorities in Congress. Second, kowtowing to ex-KGB agents erodes support with registered independents. Third, lying about payoffs to a porn star and a Playboy model rarely helps with swing-state voters.

Like the multitude of mere mortals who faced voters before him, Trump may finally be feeling gravity’s unforgiving pull as one summer scandal bleeds into another. A recent Quinnipiac University poll put the president’s approval rating at 38 percent. More troubling for Trump’s quislings in Congress should be the political beating Midwest voters are dishing out on the politician they helped elect president. According to an NBC News-Marist poll, only 28 percent of registered voters in Michigan believe Trump deserves to be reelected, while only 30 percent of those surveyed in Minnesota and 31 percent in Wisconsin believe he deserves reelection. Republicans are also trailing badly in generic ballot tests, and Democrats’ prospects for taking over the House and Senate continue to rise.

The political news for Republicans is so bad that even Trump is blinking. Vladimir Putin will not be coming to the White House this year; the president has put major pieces of his trade war on hold and has shelved any plans to shut down the government this fall. But Republicans hoping to save themselves from the political storm that will soon wipe away their congressional majorities would be well served to speak out against Trump’s most destructive policies, which are anti-conservative, illiberal and sure to bring doom to the once-Grand Old Party.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-finally-feels-gravitys-unforgiving-pull/2018/07/26/ae92e542-910c-11e8-bcd5-9d911c784c38_story.html?utm_term=.3901e5782eea

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. That would explain why he looks so saggy lately.

[mucifer]

2. Nothing that has happened recently has followed logic. If congress won't improve the election

trickery we are screwed no matter what the polls say.

[hlthe2b]

3. I have to admit, some of these essays by former staunch R's are pretty damned cathartic

I trust Scarborough as far as I could throw him, but still... He's not a bad writer (or Mika is a good editor....

[coeur_de_lion]

4. He's been staunchly anti-trump

for more than a year now. I don't know about trusting him but I found the article veeeerrryyy interesting.

Like this part:

Trump’s stunning victory created such disorienting shock waves across Washington that neither Democrats nor Republicans understood what the accidental president admitted to me a month after his win.

“The election could have been held 20 different times, but that was probably the one day I would have won,” the president-elect said in December 2016. “Everything came together at once.”

I just wonder what all came together that day.

[bobbieinok]

6. NEVER FORGET/FORGIVE!! Joe, Mika pushed T for a yr, celebrated with him

[hlthe2b]

7. well aware.... n/t

[iluvtennis]

9. +++ Agree. Although over the last year Joe/Mike have tried to make amends, but I can't forget

what they did to Hillary.

[peekaloo]

5. I know Scarborough is anti-Trump but the title leads me to believe he's pro-REM.

Meanwhile in Florida the GOP candidates are sticking to Thump like the proverbial flies on shite.

[PatrickforO]

8. The Republican party is the biggest threat to world peace, the environment, and

the human species.

The biggest.

My hope is they get pasted so bad they lose all viability as a political party. Nice if they went the way of the Whigs, or the Copperheads, or the Know Nothings.

Oh, wait....they ARE the Know Nothings.

[Hekate]

10. I'm not counting any chickens before they're hatched, so to speak...

I just hope to gods we can pull this off sufficiently.

[Demovictory9]

11. kick

[H2O Man]

12. Recommended.

It's been an interesting evening. The weekend will likely be even better.