I smell what JVL’s stepping in. Two things. 1. Trump’s age is a factor here. He is rapidly deteriorating cognitively and it will be increasingly obvious because he likes to get on camera and run his mouth. He cares very deeply about what is said on cable news about him and his focus is on them because his generation watches TV and pays f…
I smell what JVL’s stepping in. Two things. 1. Trump’s age is a factor here. He is rapidly deteriorating cognitively and it will be increasingly obvious because he likes to get on camera and run his mouth. He cares very deeply about what is said on cable news about him and his focus is on them because his generation watches TV and pays for cable. Cable News has had a declining ratings problem for years because many of us under 55 do not bother with it and don’t have cable. Many more completely lost faith in them because of how they covered the 2024 race and they lost even more audience because they were trying to play both sides, as having Trump around was good for ratings. But the audience isn’t tolerating even a smidge of Fox News fluff. They have been bailing on cable news especially as folks like Morning Joe go bend the knee. 2. How badly Trump will muck things up for the public. Trump 2028 only works if he has enough support. I suspect he will lose quite a bit of it with his bad policies and behavior. He has already spent a lot of his political capital with his horrible nominees and his J6 pardon promises that people don’t want, and walking back the singular reason those not in his cult voted Republican - inflation and prices. Republicans are cowards but only because they think he and his base are the path to winning. The moment they do not think that, I would imagine JD Vance has the 25th Amendment knife sharpened and ready to plunge into Trump’s back. The non MAGA expect Paul Ryan’s and Mitch McConnell’s policy and a return to the 2019 economy as pricing, which they for some reason do not understand is not a thing that will happen no matter who is president. He will not only not deliver that, he will ruin the ok economy we do have and there will be a lot of backlash. There is no spectacular Obama economy to ride this time, an economy he was on pace to thwart before Covid accelerated everything in 2020. It won’t matter if these media and companies bow to him if he is rolling with a 28% approval rating and most people aren’t watching them anyway. In places where what he is attempting to do has worked they at least had popular support in the beginning and some policy success. But Trump is not as smart or capable as those authoritarians, he is a moron with terrible ideas whose mouth wrote checks he can’t cash in office. People are going to notice price hikes and less and more expensive housing and they’re not going to be happy. We will see I guess. But if the public are all clamoring for him to go, and good riddance, he will have little support to violate what he must violate to run again.
Trump being his own worst enemy is my hope as well. He is in serious decline. From what I have seen of the supporters who write to my newspaper, none of these fools have changed their minds. Just doubled down with support. Plan to remind them of the NBC News interview with my next letter. Maybe that will start the ball rolling.
I smell what JVL’s stepping in. Two things. 1. Trump’s age is a factor here. He is rapidly deteriorating cognitively and it will be increasingly obvious because he likes to get on camera and run his mouth. He cares very deeply about what is said on cable news about him and his focus is on them because his generation watches TV and pays for cable. Cable News has had a declining ratings problem for years because many of us under 55 do not bother with it and don’t have cable. Many more completely lost faith in them because of how they covered the 2024 race and they lost even more audience because they were trying to play both sides, as having Trump around was good for ratings. But the audience isn’t tolerating even a smidge of Fox News fluff. They have been bailing on cable news especially as folks like Morning Joe go bend the knee. 2. How badly Trump will muck things up for the public. Trump 2028 only works if he has enough support. I suspect he will lose quite a bit of it with his bad policies and behavior. He has already spent a lot of his political capital with his horrible nominees and his J6 pardon promises that people don’t want, and walking back the singular reason those not in his cult voted Republican - inflation and prices. Republicans are cowards but only because they think he and his base are the path to winning. The moment they do not think that, I would imagine JD Vance has the 25th Amendment knife sharpened and ready to plunge into Trump’s back. The non MAGA expect Paul Ryan’s and Mitch McConnell’s policy and a return to the 2019 economy as pricing, which they for some reason do not understand is not a thing that will happen no matter who is president. He will not only not deliver that, he will ruin the ok economy we do have and there will be a lot of backlash. There is no spectacular Obama economy to ride this time, an economy he was on pace to thwart before Covid accelerated everything in 2020. It won’t matter if these media and companies bow to him if he is rolling with a 28% approval rating and most people aren’t watching them anyway. In places where what he is attempting to do has worked they at least had popular support in the beginning and some policy success. But Trump is not as smart or capable as those authoritarians, he is a moron with terrible ideas whose mouth wrote checks he can’t cash in office. People are going to notice price hikes and less and more expensive housing and they’re not going to be happy. We will see I guess. But if the public are all clamoring for him to go, and good riddance, he will have little support to violate what he must violate to run again.
Trump being his own worst enemy is my hope as well. He is in serious decline. From what I have seen of the supporters who write to my newspaper, none of these fools have changed their minds. Just doubled down with support. Plan to remind them of the NBC News interview with my next letter. Maybe that will start the ball rolling.