It’s truly horrifying that the unfit monster destroying our country and causing trouble around the world still has close to 40% approval in general and 80%+ of the GOP if the polls are to be believed.
Sorry these numbers don’t look unfavorable. So he’s got a 40% approval rating. That’s huge. Democrats need to build a strategy and plan to change this to below 30%. I haven’t seen the DNC provide strategy nor plan to regain rural America. Neither has any democratic I know. Sadly the beatings will continue.
He probably has a floor of 33-35% where the true cult members live -- the ones who can watch what's going on today and still say "Yeah, I want me some of that". If there
s a strategy that's needed, it's one that can rehab that 33-35%, and I'm not close to smart enough to know how to fix that. Because as someone famously observed, "You can't fix stupid". But peeling away the 4-7% between the 39-40% who still rate him favorable and the 33-35% who will go down with the ship? That's doable, and it would be enough. As long as you can tie his enablers in Congress and the judiciary to that millstone.
They do seem to have a problem reading the room. And it's not an unreasonable assumption for them to think they'll get the "anti Republican vote" by virtue of having a "D" behind their name. Because when your opponent sucks as bad as the present day Fascisti do, you're gonna get a lot of votes by accident. What they have to learn -- and we have to teach them -- is that just been not-Republican isn't enough. At some point, yo're going to have to give people something to vote FOR. Otherwise we perpetuate this sine wave indefinitely.
If SCOTUS had ever done anything to snuff out gerrymandering, dems would win 300 seats in the House this year. As it is, Dems will have to feel good about a 5 seat majority. IF ....
Keep hammering on the economy. His authoritarian actions are horrifying, but they don’t resonate in the everyday lives of people who aren’t news junkies or aren’t directly affected. His overreach can easily be portrayed as examples of his indifference to the lives of everyday people, whose grocery and energy and housing bills keep rising.
It’s true that many people don’t like Trump, or his minions. But unlike past years when the Party in Power lost in the midterms Trump knows they CANNOT lose in this midterm election because if they lose he is done being able to get anything done except resisting impeachment and removal. So, they are gerrymandering wherever possible. And Trump will declare an emergency, stop the election, seize ballots, whatever it takes to ensure that Democrats never Control Congress again! I have been a Political Activist since 1972. This Administration is different from anything that existed before. They defy any and all laws. They are hellbent on destroying the Republic, The Constitution, and The Rule of Law. I hope I am dead wrong. But the fact is that we are in deep trouble.
I think it would be very helpful have a group of genuine experts now analyze the possibility, legal and political, that Trump attempts to "suspend" the November elections.
It’s truly horrifying that the unfit monster destroying our country and causing trouble around the world still has close to 40% approval in general and 80%+ of the GOP if the polls are to be believed.
He needs to be impeached. If he goes into Greenland even Republicans may be ready to convict him.
Sorry these numbers don’t look unfavorable. So he’s got a 40% approval rating. That’s huge. Democrats need to build a strategy and plan to change this to below 30%. I haven’t seen the DNC provide strategy nor plan to regain rural America. Neither has any democratic I know. Sadly the beatings will continue.
He probably has a floor of 33-35% where the true cult members live -- the ones who can watch what's going on today and still say "Yeah, I want me some of that". If there
s a strategy that's needed, it's one that can rehab that 33-35%, and I'm not close to smart enough to know how to fix that. Because as someone famously observed, "You can't fix stupid". But peeling away the 4-7% between the 39-40% who still rate him favorable and the 33-35% who will go down with the ship? That's doable, and it would be enough. As long as you can tie his enablers in Congress and the judiciary to that millstone.
This is why Trump wants to cancel the midterm elections
Now let's watch Democrats try to screw it up by insisting on broadly unpopular policies. They tend to struggle with basic math.
They do seem to have a problem reading the room. And it's not an unreasonable assumption for them to think they'll get the "anti Republican vote" by virtue of having a "D" behind their name. Because when your opponent sucks as bad as the present day Fascisti do, you're gonna get a lot of votes by accident. What they have to learn -- and we have to teach them -- is that just been not-Republican isn't enough. At some point, yo're going to have to give people something to vote FOR. Otherwise we perpetuate this sine wave indefinitely.
If SCOTUS had ever done anything to snuff out gerrymandering, dems would win 300 seats in the House this year. As it is, Dems will have to feel good about a 5 seat majority. IF ....
Keep hammering on the economy. His authoritarian actions are horrifying, but they don’t resonate in the everyday lives of people who aren’t news junkies or aren’t directly affected. His overreach can easily be portrayed as examples of his indifference to the lives of everyday people, whose grocery and energy and housing bills keep rising.
It’s true that many people don’t like Trump, or his minions. But unlike past years when the Party in Power lost in the midterms Trump knows they CANNOT lose in this midterm election because if they lose he is done being able to get anything done except resisting impeachment and removal. So, they are gerrymandering wherever possible. And Trump will declare an emergency, stop the election, seize ballots, whatever it takes to ensure that Democrats never Control Congress again! I have been a Political Activist since 1972. This Administration is different from anything that existed before. They defy any and all laws. They are hellbent on destroying the Republic, The Constitution, and The Rule of Law. I hope I am dead wrong. But the fact is that we are in deep trouble.
I think it would be very helpful have a group of genuine experts now analyze the possibility, legal and political, that Trump attempts to "suspend" the November elections.