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Fighting Trump's Rancid Embrace Of Putin

Simon Rosenberg

Morning all. As I wrote yesterday Trump had a terrible week of full of embarrassing retreats, losses and surrenders. He looked weak, unstable, deeply unreliable and yes even idiotic. Pressure forced him to abandon his reckless tariffs on Canada and Mexico and begin the hard process of reining in Musk’s lawless attack on the US government. With his poll numbers way down, the economy slowing and inflation rising, losses mounting in the courts including with his allied SCOTUS, Tesla crashing and SpaceX rockets exploding (again), there is a growing sense that this Trump 2.0 thing despite the bluster and the blather simply isn’t working for him or America. And thus Trump and his team began to change course this week.

Congratulations everyone. Our work, our efforts, our pressure is working.

In recent weeks we talked here how we’d seen cracks emerge in Trump’s Congressional support over his traitorous embrace of Putin; in his plutocratic, middle class betraying economic policies; and in Musk’s savage assault on our government and the Constitutional order. We saw retreats this week from Trump on the economic and Musk front. To me the next big question is whether Trump starts to retreat on his cowardly appeasement of Putin and betrayal of Zelenskyy, Europe and the what we call the America of the Four Freedoms.

The biggest fissure in Trump’s Congressional support is on Russia. It is where Republicans have been the most vocal, the most critical of Trump, the most shocked and outraged. It’s why Senator Slotkin hit Trump’s embrace of Putin so hard in her speech this week. She knows how uncomfortable her Republican Senate colleagues are Trump’s historic betrayal. Yesterday The Hill newspaper had a prominent story about Republican Senators advocating the restoration of our military and intelligence support of Ukraine, working under the assumption (illusion?) that what Trump has done was execute a temporary pause rather than a wholesale switching of sides in the war:

https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trump-20-isnt-working-for-him-o

[J_William_Ryan]

1. "Trump had a terrible week of full of embarrassing retreats, losses and surrenders."

And Trump’s failures will continue, his agenda will grow more unpopular, eventually losing support of Congressional Republicans concerned about losing the House, Senate, or both.