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View submission: Trumpism Isn’t Working
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With public sentiment riding against Trump’s designs and no end in sight to the chaos he and Musk foment, there’s never been a better time for the party that believes in government to defend that government, connecting the ruination of the civil service to the ruination that will be visited on ordinary people.
...the bottom line: Trumpism isn’t working. This mostly portends pain for the country and the planet, but there’s a silver lining to be found in a president who has screwed up so royally this soon into his post-inauguration honeymoon period: His opponents have an unexpected advantage.
“It seems unavoidable that we are headed for a deep, deep recession,” former U.S. Labor Department economist Jesse Rothstein told The Telegraph this week. Apollo Global economist Torsten Slok said that “layoffs could approach 1 million after factoring in the likely chain reaction” that Trump’s cuts to the civil service will have; Slok went on to observe that “the US Economic Policy Uncertainty Index was now higher than at any time during the great recession.”
As Senator Elizabeth Warren said during an interview on CNN this week, “Our best strategy is to make sure everybody knows exactly what the Republicans are trying to do.” That’s a plan that doesn’t require a congressional majority, just a commitment.
As Trump and Musk stampede through Washington, and the inevitable maladies of this destruction become more visible to the public, liberals might be staring at a historic opportunity to turn public opinion on the value of government around.
Comment by Forsworn91 at 02/03/2025 at 14:49 UTC
51 upvotes, 2 direct replies
It’s amusing that they actually softly trying to sell the recession as “not bad” while the experts are already predicting a recession is going to be the minimum, a DEPRESSION, is more likely to hit the US
Comment by Pietes at 02/03/2025 at 13:51 UTC
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And how would that work out into a change of government exactly?
Walk me through the steps please.
Warren lives in la-la land, where rule of law reigns and people do what is ethically just.
Comment by MamaMoosicorn at 02/03/2025 at 15:04 UTC
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Thank you! I didn’t want to subscribe to read that
Comment by Sky_Zaddy at 02/03/2025 at 14:11 UTC
4 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Democrats be like: let's really show the opposition we mean business by doing absolutely nothing. Again.