Setting the Stage (The Opposition Report #16)
The corruption, death by ICE, one war after another, and more.
The president is increasingly unpopular. The opposition party is leading most polls so a landslide is possible but not guaranteed. It looks like they might take the Senate but the key races are far too close to call. That’s right: 2026 is a midterm year in the 21st century.
Trump’s poll numbers have this summer continued slipping downwards, at the rate of about one percent of the population no longer approving of his presidency every month or so. Now, that is not exactly the rate Liberal Currents readers might hope for, but there also isn’t really any sign that the trend is going to reverse anytime soon. I for one don’t even have any idea what could possibly lead to a major spike for his approval ratings. Polls guru G. Elliott Morris recently concluded that even falling gas prices won’t help Republicans out of the hole they have been building.
The Trump admin also isn’t exactly behaving like an administration worried about getting a Republican majority elected this November, or getting a President Rubio or Vance elected in a couple years’ time. While the admin keeps pressuring Senate Republicans to ditch the filibuster in order to pass the SAVE America Act, which essentially is just a manifestation of Trump’s fixation on “winning” the 2020 election, their other idée fixe at present is…Anthony Fauci. Not to mention Kennedy’s long-running anti-vaccine project, which still threatens to ruin America’s public health program.
So the two primary prongs of the Republican policy debate right now are both just relitigating 2020. …
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