Why is it so hard to stop Donald Trump?

Americans are in a sour political mood Despite a soaring stock arena the financial market is suffering because of President Donald Trump s tariffs and other policies Inflation has increased The job sphere is anemic Youth unemployment is which is double the national rate More Americans are afraid of losing their jobs Debt is increasing The housing realm is slowing Economists are warning about a severe recession and stagflation Trump is losing sponsorship among key parts of his winning coalition including Hispanics African-Americans young people independents and first-time voters Traditional Republican voters and right-wing-leaning independents are increasingly concerned about his agenda His backing is apparently eroding in the battleground states that were key to his supremacy in There are even reports however anecdotal that farmers a group that has consistently supported him are beginning to abandon him Republican candidates are losing special elections The greater part Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction A majority views Trump as a threat to democracy and wishes he would govern with more restraint Every week the media is full of palace intrigue stories of arguments tensions jealousies betrayals and even fistfights between the various characters in MAGA world Various reporting quotes insiders and experts who know that deep down inside Trump is afraid of losing the midterms which is why he is moving so fast with his authoritarian consolidation of power There are growing concerns about his wellness and fitness to be president which were heightened after he disappeared from inhabitants view in the days leading up to Labor Day weekend Any one of these issues but especially his poor handling of the business sector and inflation would likely sink another president s popularity In normal times Congress would even convene impeachment hearings due to chosen of his behavior But this is Donald Trump we re talking about Since he first stated his candidacy for president in the walls have been closing in on him because of his rhetoric felony convictions alleged crimes and numerous attacks on the country s democratic institutions and norms The president s political end has never come He has invariably emerged from scandals controversies and trials even more popular among his MAGA followers and plenty of other Americans as well Nearly nine months into his second term which has seen him follow through on his autocratic shock and awe campaign to remake America in his image his approval ratings have remained steady hovering around to percent The president s political end has never come He has perpetually emerged from scandals controversies and trials even more popular among his MAGA followers and multiple other Americans as well Nearly nine months into his second term which has seen him follow through on his autocratic shock and awe campaign to remake America in his image his approval ratings have remained steady hovering around to percent Though hardly popular Trump s gift for political survival nevertheless remains intact The Economist just now solicited Donald Trump is unpopular Why is it so hard to stand up to him Their answer He moves much faster than the lumbering forces that constrain him He is like the TikTok algorithm grabbing attention and moving on to the next thing before his opponents have worked out what just happened But there are other explanations for the president s endurance against the odds Trump s law and order theater which has included mass deportations and threats to invade Democrat-led cities and blue states are more popular than several in the news media political class and general masses would like to believe If the cruelty is the point as The Atlantic s Adam Serwer so memorably wrote there is a big audience for it in America Related After Charlie Kirk s murder what lies ahead could be terrible We are living in an era of rage against the elites Incumbents and establishment voices not only in America but also around the world are at a severe disadvantage in such an conditions Several of this is a product of the COVID pandemic Joseph Lemoine and Will Mortenson in recent times argued in the Washington Post G lobal democracy suffers from a form of long covid they wrote Political freedom already in decline was driven to a -year low following the pandemic Since the global annual rate of democratic backsliding has quadrupled new information shows At least countries have lost specific political freedom and more than a third of these were not experiencing decline before the pandemic This group includes the United States Canada South Korea Japan Australia and of the European Union countries Lemoine and Mortensen explained that the cure for this trend is deliberate repair They recommended several measures including legislatures working to prevent exigency powers from hardening into permanent authority Sunset provisions should be issued for digital surveillance technologies they announced and commitment in and civil teaching for youth should be prioritized One of Trump s political superpowers is what political theorist Steven Lukes has called epistemic liberation the ability to invent facts and suffer no consequences The president also has the power to confound and bend political and social reality to his will a dubious gift that has short-circuited systems of political accountability Want more sharp takes on politics Sign up for our free newsletter Standing Room Only written by Amanda Marcotte now also a weekly show on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts Then there s the Democratic Party s deep and obvious problems If there s one thing a large majority of Americans have consistently agreed on this year it s that the Democratic Party sucks Christian Paz wrote in a new essay at Vox Unfavorable views of the party seem to keep rising with every passing month of President Donald Trump s second term and that discontent has reached a new height this summer More than percent of American adults view the Democrats with derision according to weekly tracking polls conducted by YouGov Looking at this another way positive views of the Democratic Party have now crumbled to a historic low with only about one-third of the country seeing them in a good light per Wall Street Journal polling that shook the political world in July For various reasons Americans also dislike the party s leaders A fight with a charismatic leader and political strongman like Trump will be largely decided by force of will and personality as well as a powerful narrative that can summon emotions On the national level Democrats do not yet have a champion who can consistently go toe-to-toe with Trump and MAGA The party failed to mount a forceful ideas-driven opposition and a compelling narrative that will convince voters the party is on their side Instead they have spent the months since former Vice President Kamala Harris balloting loss soul-searching holding meetings with highly-paid consultants and other experts to determine a way forward We need your help to stay independent Subscribe in current times to aid Chauncey DeVega s journalism Certain of these solutions are tragicomic Finding new strategies to talk to men or desperately searching for the liberal equivalent of Joe Rogan As I and others have repeatedly warned while Democrats are playing defense at particular point they will be encircled That moment may have arrived No better illustration exists than this On Sept Harris will release Days a memoir that promises to relitigate former President Joe Biden s decision to seek reelection and then withdraw from the race and her own defeat She will embark on a national book tour of speaking engagements Meanwhile in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk s assassination Trump and his MAGA movement are scapegoating the left and vowing vengeance on their enemies It would be deeply irresponsible for those of us with a citizens platform to offer assurances that somehow everything is going to turn out fine because of America and our optimism and national character Moreover it is this reckless and naive optimism contrary to the facts that helped to create this rapidly worsening calamity America s politics and society feel more and more broken each day perhaps irreparably Where do we go from here I do not know We are truly lost in a fractured country of our own making Read more about this topic Trump s stain on America may be permanent Even Leavitt can t spin the joke check to Epstein from DJTrump Trump attacks wokeness and betrays his own voters The post Why is it so hard to stop Donald Trump appeared first on Salon com