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Bill Clinton and Barack Obama have come off the sidelines to rally voters for the midterms, but they waited until a trend was already clear. The animating force behind the blue wave is Trump himself.
When we’re exposed to constant news alerts, each outrage is soon eclipsed by the next. If you check the news only once a day, it’s easier to see the full horror.
The former Fed chair, ‘a devout Republican,’ was famous for consulting smart Democrats and obscure experts. The antithesis of modern policymaking.
His appearance at the U.N. only underscored how far he has retreated from global leadership.
Even without his reckless promise to buy off every American adult with $5,000, he was on track to break his first-term record for adding to the unsustainable U.S. debt.
Like President George W. Bush did, President Trump wages war ahead of midterm elections and makes false claims of success to win voters. The trouble is, Trump does so against Americans’ memories of Bush’s record.
Just one thing is certain: chaos on some level. That’s Trump’s trademark and yet another reason voters increasingly dislike him.
We say “there will never be another Dolly Parton” with regret. To say the same about Trump is, for many Americans, a relief.
The president is campaigning against Republicans by enriching himself while in office.
Suddenly we have a new measure of how much women and minorities (and immigrants) contribute to protecting America: the casualty toll in Trump’s war against Iran.
