Trump’s Threat to Unleash Troops in Cities Darkens as Brutal Poll Hits
As Trump vows to send the military into more cities amid some bad polling news on the issue, Brian Beutler explains why he’s losing the voters on this—and how Dems should proceed now.
Emboldened by a partial court victory over his use of troops amid immigration protests in Los Angeles, President Trump is now threatening to expand deployment to other cities. This is unnerving, given that his manufacturing of fake rationales for “emergency” decisions like these is getting worse. Yet it comes as striking new polling shows that Trump’s use of troops in California is deeply underwater with voters. Importantly, he’s faring even worse on this with independents. In short, Trump recognizes zero constraints at this point, either from the law or, critically, from public opinion. We talked to
, author of the excellent Substack. He explains why Trump is losing the voters on two issues that pundits foolishly predicted he’d win on—the domestic deployment of troops and immigration—and how Democrats should respond by fighting a better information war than they currently seem capable of waging. Listen to this episode here. A transcript is here.I Still Think Trump Will Fire Jerome Powell
Should you desire a break from worrying about how the war will end that President Donald Trump started against Iran, consider worrying about how the war will end that Trump started against the Federal Reserve Board. In Iran, the targets were uranium enrichment and storage sites in
How the Billionaires Took Over
Yes, Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. But the far bigger menace is the monstrous growth in wealth concentration over five decades that made a Trump presidency possible—and maybe inevitable. Here’s how we let it happen.
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