100 days of disaster
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This is a useful summary of the first months of the second Trump term in chart form. We should start here:
This is what makes the Whitmer/Newsom/Polis approach so misguided. It is true that to win the presidency the Democrats are going to have to convert some Trump voters, and to get a Senate majority is going to require converting even more. But “Trump alienating erstwhile supporters because he’s a terrible president offering 100% sticks and 0% carrots unless you’re extremely rich” is a much more plausible path to doing this than “getting on board the Titanic.”
This data is even worse given that the decline is entirely self-inflicted, and is happening despite the markets being positively predisposed to like the party of deregulation and upper-class tax cuts.
And he is inciting revulsion in other countries that is both damaging the American economy and reducing his bargaining leverage:
In fairness, though, Trump has announced some supplements to the less-htna-paltry achievements touted by Stephen Miller on Fox yesterday:
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I guess I wrote him of prematurely.