1. The thing about Donald Trump is that he's bad at being president. I don't mean tyrannical or fascist or criminal or corrupt. Those adjectives obviously apply, but I mean *just plain bad*.
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2. The basic job of being president is reflecting the will of the majority of the American people as faithfully as possible. When you run afoul of public opinion, you change course quick.
Trump doesn't do that.
No one around him does that.
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3. GOP voters are starting to believe he doesn't care about them. No other president has polled worse in a midterm according to G Elliott Morris, not even George W Bush in 2006.
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4. Yet someone in the White House thought now was the perfect time to push 760,000 people off Obamacare?
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5. Sure, fraud. That was their reason for doing it. It's a lie, according to Charles Gaba, but even if it were true, why do it now?
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6. And why risk pushing *your own people* off their health insurance. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, more than 75 percent of Obamacare enrollees live in states that the president won in 2024.
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7. What on earth is the White House trying to prove? Not that Trump is a good president. More like proving his enemies right.
This, for instance, from Brian Beutler:
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8. Trump might avoid this were he good at being president.
He's not. This is the result.
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9. What is Trump good at? Scamming. He told the American people during the last election that he would bring down the cost of living and restore the country's greatness.
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10. All they had to do was ignore the fact that he's a cheat and a liar, that he's a criminal and a traitor, that he was convicted on 34 counts of felony fraud, and that he was determined by a judge to be a rapist.
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11. In essence, Trump asked a majority of voters to trade democracy and the rule of law for an IOU, and to the shock and horror of the civilized world, a majority of voters accepted.
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12. I think the rage we are seeing now in public polling, especially among those who voted for Donald Trump, is the rage of people who realize they are never going to get what they were promised and, perhaps, that what they have sacrificed is never coming back.
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13. It is now mainstream that Trump's IOU isn't worth the paper it was written on. Even his attempted bribe of $5,000 per US adult if his party wins was met with crickets. Voters can respond in two ways: stay home on Election Day or vote Dem. Either way, historic GOP losses.
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14. Trump could mitigate those losses if he were good at being president, but he isn't. Instead, he takes people's healthcare away. He brutalizes immigrants even more.
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15. Above all, he lies about the true cost of war. "It’s a very inexpensive price to pay for what we’ve done,” the president said of the price of gas.
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16. His surrogates are worse.
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17. In 2024, Donald Trump gave the American people a choice: the Constitution of the United States or greed. A majority chose greed. But two years later, he's acting like there won't be consequences for that decision.
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18. No one alive has seen a president choose to walk into the teeth of American selfishness. No one alive has seen a president pretend it won't be deadly.
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21. Follow the link to read my answers to questions on impeachment and Democrats stopping Trump's grift. It's the ASK ME ANYTHING edition of the Editorial Board.
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